Little Rock We need to get rid of the three strikes program for people and institute it for banks, whose criminal conduct continues to rage unabated. Wells Fargo, the West Coast based banking center, is a serial abuser of mortgage borrowers using predatory practices. Cook County, home of Chicago, and 5 million good people, has …
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Boy Scouts Change Course, Go Red and Blue on Gay Youth
New Orleans I was almost caught off guard the other day in an interview with a New York based documentary filmmaker when I was asked what role the Boy Scouts had in making me the man I became. I hadn’t seen that question coming. I don’t think about the Boy Scouts every day, but I …
Eagles Falling and more Institutions Shrinking
Missoula Flying through Denver we picked up the papers on our way to our camping and fishing vacation off the grid in Montana. Depressing! Though well known for a while, reading the story of the AFL-CIO’s proposed sale of their National Labor College was a downer. Not only because of all of the waste but …