HEJE Overview 6-1-18
Environment Risks of crop-dusting were sensed before Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” After World War II, when industrial farming really started to gain ground, there were three parties to the...
View ArticleIllinois Update 6-2-18: Education, Chicago-style
The mother-of-all-scandals at CPS revealed in a Tribune special report Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is being forced to answer for yet another Chicago Public Schools (CPS) scandal: sexual abuse of...
View ArticleLabor Day 2018: Points to Ponder
The Way Forward Toni Gilpin, “A Louisville union built its strength as blacks, whites took on International Harvester Our first link is to a piece by labor historian Toni Gilpin, an independent scholar...
View ArticleWhat we’re following 9-22-18
AN ALL-ROUND BAD NEWS WEEK ENVIRONMENT Coal ash pits and effluents from industrial hog farms threaten freshwater in North Carolina “As of Friday, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality...
View Article“Boys Will Be Boys” 9-24-18
“Boys Will Be Boys” INTRODUCTION We cover Justice on this blog, and wrote a good deal about the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia last year. Our comments related to Judge Gorsuch’s...
View ArticleViews on the SCOTUS nominee 9-25-18
YMMV A smattering of views from pundits (including lawyer-bloggers) on the SCOTUS nominee. As we see below, YMMV, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. From the Editors of The...
View ArticleSCOTUS redux + other 9-10-18
It’s (Another) One of Those Days In which we summarize and comment on: the new SCOTUS member’s record on labor; homelessness in Portland, Oregon, and billionaires and their ed “reforms.” In other...
View ArticlePublic Transport and Segregation 10-14-18
QUOTE OF THE DAY Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle.” The public transportation system of Baltimore, MD Alec MacGillis writes about...
View ArticleEducation 10-16-18
Persistent segregation in the Charlottesville, Virginia public schools “The debate over the city’s statue of Robert E. Lee and the white supremacist march last year set Charlottesville apart and...
View Article2-1-2019: Housing Justice/Injustice
Housing Justice/Injustice Today we look at a couple of articles about another Midwestern state: Minnesota. First: A short article published in Washington Monthly about the state’s “Fiscal Disparities...
View Article2-23-20 Healthcare: Do you have it?
Do you have health insurance? If you have health insurance, whether public (Medicare, Medicaid) or private (through an employer), we invite you to conduct the following thought experiment: imagine you...
View Article2-24-2020 HEJE Overview
Health/healthcare: The opioid crisis in Tennessee From the Times, today: A remote rural county (Carter) in Tennessee near the North Carolina / Virginia border is teaching children as young as six how...
View Article2-25-20 A Utopian Vision for America
Daring to Dream of a Better World Last evening we spoke with someone about an essay we’d both just read in a magazine called Current Affairs. This publication, which is edited by someone young enough...
View Article5-5-2020 We Need to Talk
We Need to Talk Matt Taibbi, a political and financial (malfeasance) reporter we respect, recently published a piece on Substack.com, his new publication venue, on fake news and who creates it and why...
View Article5-6-2020 But What about the Littles?
But What about the Littles? Yesterday we discussed a number of topics that should form important parts of discussion as states begin the process of re-opening. Entirely by chance, the Governor of...
View Article5-7-2020 The USPS is Worth Saving
The USPS is worth fighting for David Dayen over at the Prospect reports on yet another blow to the USPS: the resignation of Board of Governors vice-chair David C. Williams, who was appointed in August...
View Article5-8-2020 Covid-19 *Updates*
Updates on the unfolding tragedy of the USPS, the homeless + the NYC subway, and the horrific outbreak of Covid-19 in rural southwest Georgia – We’ve followed these stories on our Facebook page, and we...
View Article5-8-2020 Herd Immunity? Hmm.
Herd Immunity: Not all it’s cracked up to be A very astute piece on Interfluidity by Steve Randy Waldman, one of the most comprehensible explanations of “herd immunity”and what it can – and can’t – do...
View Article5-11-2020 Where are you headed, America?
Is America going back to the past or forward to the future? Because “back to the future” isn’t an option in the real world. We’re riffing off two “big-picture” pieces in the MSM today and wondering how...
View Article5-13-20 Nature: The Greatest Teacher
Nature: The Greatest Teacher The writer – ecologist George Monbiot has been carrying out a teaching and learning experiment in “placing ecology and Earth systems at the heart of learning” with his...
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