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 …
Tenants Are Front and Center in Presidential Race
Milwaukee A funny thing happened on the way to the 2020 presidential primaries in the long shadow of the Great Recession of 2007: Democrats are finally discovering the tenants living right under their noses, and the fact that the American dream is no longer home ownership, it’s affordable housing. One candidate after another, elbowing to …
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, …