New Orleans An lead article in the Sunday New York Times was a wan effort to footnote the partisan efforts of Republicans controlling an increasing number of state legislatures to suppress the ability and access to voting for lower income citizens, elderly, infirm, and others without current picture identifications. There was a weakly researched editorial …
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Snow, Favelas, and Malcolm X
Coer d’ Alene My son, Chaco, and I had pulled off the grid 21 miles east of Missoula at the signpost advertising the annual “Teste-Feste” every summer, an event we simply hustle by on the way up Rock Creek. As we lost cell service and email access to our surprise we were greeted by snow. …
Kris Kobach and Systematic Republican Vote Suppression
Missoula One of the best lines in the great movie, The Outlaw Josie Wales, occurs when Clint Eastwood as Wales turns to Sandra Locke, the young woman, also his paramour at the time, and says, “is that what they teach young girls in Kansas.” I’ve always thought that has to be one of the more …