Which brings me around to the Town’s new Urban Renewal Authority — the URA — and the ongoing political controversy surrounding it. You might even classify it as a ‘personality conflict’…
Month: June 2020
EDITORIAL: Dying Alone in a Nursing Home, Part Two
In an article on the FREOPP.org website, reporter Gregg Girvan referred to the nursing home crisis as the “most underappreciated aspect of the novel coronavirus pandemic…”
OPINION: Concerning the Colorado River
However, during this time the Imperial Valley was no sacred cow as Mr. Hudson’s editorial suggested. We were the sacrificial lamb…
OPINION: The Endgame for Small Towns
My hometown of Brainerd is a ward of the state. So is nearly every small town in America….
OPINION: The Pandemic Underlines America’s Ingrained Racism
We are now reaping the harvest of the seeds of racism and discrimination; the devaluation of black life in job opportunities, in buying and lending, in wages, positions, and treatment…
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part Three
“In some of your schools, it might be that almost everybody needs to be back, because they’re working parents, they’re single parents; they need the schools…”
Senator Bennet Discusses RESTART Act with Business Owners
“We have yet to receive a PPP… We applied at the beginning when we were all let loose to do so. It is very tough…”
HMPRESENTLY: Some Things Powerful and Hopeful, Over These Past Troubling Days
I’m making notes about some powerful, hopeful news, even as there’s almost unrelenting unrest in American cities…