Cincinnati Reading the paper on the plane my eye caught a piece about the Boy Scouts in north central Alabama. True confession — I was a boy scout — many people accuse me of being one to this day. My brother was a boy scout. My son was a boy scout. We weren’t just scouts, …
Category: Personal Writings
Mesa, Beacon High, and 700,000,000 in the Middle Class
New York Some follow-ups from earlier blogs and footnotes along the way…. * We lost the property tax election in Mesa, Arizona not surprisingly by a 60-40 margin in the final count. The news came to me this way: NAME: Todd Hopkinson EMAIL: patriot@patriotmagazine.com MSG: Hi Wade, I am the author and sole creator of YesForMesa.us. …
Over the Transom
New Orleans As part of the grist for the mill, I thought I would share a couple of pointed — and poignant — notes that came over the transom to me this week. The first is from Orell Fitzsimmons who is SEIU Local 100’s Organizing Director based in Houston on the even of the May …