Juneau Before coming up to help organize the Mental Health Consumers Action Network (MCAN) in Alaska, I only had one request. I wanted to be able to meet and listen to men and women who had experience in the system to hear their issues and ideas for improvements. I wanted to talk to the consumers …
Land Matters for Mental Health in Alaska
Juneau Looking around the small, pretty Alaskan capitol of Juneau, a first-timer like myself comes to the shorthand conclusion that tourism and state government in the capitol is the engine driving the city. A couple of days of meetings remind you that first appearances don’t tell you everything you need to know. In the bigger-than-Texas …
Shutting Down the Locker Room Forever
Juneau The Trump defense for groping and sexual assault seems to be, “hey, that’s what men do.” His rationale for the taped clips that have emerged is equally offensive. There was no apology, simply a rationalization, where he is essentially arguing that what he was caught saying a decade ago is simply “locker room” talk …