Pearl River – In 1973, fifty years ago, ten young women working in various capacities as clerical workers at Harvard University in the Boston area came together to talk about issues on their jobs. The complaints flew fast and furious in those days when clericals were almost always women, and bosses were almost always men. …
Category: Ideas and Issues
No Matter Who Wins Speaker Contest, the Losers Are Clear
New Orleans – You gotta love this – a total political meltdown in real time, on TV and social media, and on the front pages of every paper in America. There’s a countdown similar to the Iranian hostage crisis where the days Americans were held was calendared daily across the country, but this time it’s …
Pennsylvania’s House Might Have the Answer for Congress Stalemate
New Orleans – The US House of Representatives continues to be paralyzed, hostage to a rump band of twenty or so who have come together to deny Republican majority leader Kevin McCarthy the speaker’s chair. McCarthy has now endured two days and six votes, while failing to win. My basic view is a pox on …