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If you are a major university and research institution and if members of your staff are blatant advocates for a genocidal, profiteering, propaganda mongering industry, your institution deserves to lose all accreditation – at least […]
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is currently on strike. Here’s a background video documenting some of the forces they’re up against. Yes, these are the people with whom Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel is standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Keep up with […]
Suppose you are a leader of a nationally prominent environmental conservation society or even a local conversation society. Let’s say the society is the Audubon Society or the Ruffed Grouse Society, whose missions, respectively, are: “To conserve […]
Every so often, the tax exempt status of our regions non-profits prompts a fair bit of discussion in the public square. Recent articles in the Post-Gazette written by both Nicholas Cafardi and Sally Kalson have described […]
Full audio | August 27, 2012 Rick Smith Show [Rick Smith]: Again you go back to what are critical government programs that our governor thinks of? Tax cuts for wealthy corporations? Handouts to the cracker? […]
In the effort to come to grips with the tsunami that is hydraulic fracturing, it’s multiplying associated industries, its immediate and future consequences, and the almost overwhelming sense of urgency that attends every new report of […]
Over the last few months, news outlets within Philadelphia report that violence has been erupting at a jobsite just north of Center City. These articles continue to tell the story of two young brothers and […]
A few years back, Paul E. Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying, “In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, ‘History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ […]
In my memory, there are few images of union organizing more iconic than the moment Norma Rae, played by Sally Field in the film by the same name, refuses to be driven out of her […]
Remember that mobile home park that was the subject of my last post? The 32 families that were being displaced from their homes (without adequate compensation) to make way for a water-withdrawal facility to service the natural […]