“Little-known, pro-gun Democrat gets Clinton’s Senate seat.”
That was the headline in a wire service story about Gov Paterson picking Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to the U.S. Senate to succeed Hillary Clinton, who resigned after her confirmation as Secretary of State...
View ArticleBinghamton, My Battered Hometown
I grew up on Gaines Street in Binghamton, NY’s First Ward (or The Ward, as it was commonly referred to.) Gaines is a one-block street between Oak and Front Streets. When I walked to high school, I’d...
View ArticleFear not the census taker – really
On April 2, the TU blog Saratoga Seen wrote: “U.S. Census employees will be in Saratoga Springs between April and July, carrying hand-held computers that will capture addresses and the coordinates of...
View ArticleMan dies; legal status secondary
Why, oh why, is the first sentence of this story causing me pause: An illegal immigrant from Ecuador has died from his injuries after being struck by a vehicle on Central Avenue Tuesday night. It is,...
View ArticleArizona Apartheid
In trying to tamp down my immediate visceral rage to the new Arizona immigration law, I tried to think about it in a cool, unemotional way. But even my detached persona finds it to be a really bad law....
View ArticleThe Emmaus/RISSE (probable) arson
"The need in Albany is clear: Refugee families need long-term mentoring and education as they build new lives after experiences of trauma, dislocation, and relocation."
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