Milwaukee It’s always important to “pay attention in class,” so I carefully listened and watched as the GED students and their tutors came together for a potluck lunch at the Dominican Center to mark the passing of another semester of study. I’ll stand first in line with those that scoff at service delivery as a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Budgets, Bullets, and Buses
Milwaukee It wasn’t going to last long on a busy day, so I went with the Amani United leaders as they went downtown to testify to the county commissioners in solidarity with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) bus drivers who had supported them in their successful effort to stop the elimination or rerouting of the …
Neo-Communists
Chicago It used to be a daily thing, now, thankfully, sometimes weeks will go by without some rightwing troll hurling a word bomb my way. I read them sometimes, if I’m not familiar with the author in order to see if there’s a new twist or something imaginative in the effort of insult. For me, …