Herb Block

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

Washington     Running around Washington in the unseasonably warm weather, the office wanted me to drop by and visit a DC-based foundation named after Herb Block, the well know and highly regarded political cartoonist that used to bandy a very sharp pen for the Washington Post. There are very few meetings with “funders” that are …

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Voter ID

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

Washington        It is the damnest thing that in this country we trumpet democracy all around the world but we simply cannot seem to get our government to commit to making voting something that is easy and accessible.       The Supreme Court seems to have beaten and bloodied the lawyers from Indiana pretty badly …

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Gender and Race

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

Houston     Every once in a while an article becomes viral. Yesterday’s op-ed piece by Gloria Steinem, the legendary feminist, in the New York Times was forwarded to me a half-dozen times, clearly hitting a deep chord with many women and others who share these concerns. Hillary Clinton’s edging of Barack Obama in the New …

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