Mutual Aid?
Published February 2, 2011
An agripreneur’s barn burns. A state budget burns the most vulnerable. Who helps whom?
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CounterPunch: As Cranes Fall and People Die
Published June 13, 2008
Let’s keep this in perspective, implied New York mayor Mike Bloomberg the day two construction workers died in the crane collapse on East 91st Street in Manhattan. Yes, the accident was “unacceptable,” he said. Still, “construction is a dangerous business and you will always have fatalities.” Governor David Paterson was equally unapologetic. No, no, he [...]
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Poli Psy: Why I’m happy to pay my taxes
Published April 15, 2006
There may be no fact of life about which Americans complain more than taxes. Now, I’m not thrilled about where my money goes (my total 2005 IRS bill covered about 3.5 seconds of the Iraq war) nor about the portion of income I fork over compared with, say, Dick Cheney. Self-employed, I deduct the cost [...]
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Poli Psy: No Room at the Inn
Published February 15, 2006
The cookies lay uneaten at the Lakeview Union Elementary School on Friday evening, February 3. This was no feel-good gathering. A third of Greensboro (pop. 770, tripled in summer) was meeting representatives of Northeast Kingdom Human Services, which wants to convert the former Lakeview Inn to a residential treatment facility for eight mentally ill patients [...]
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Poli Psy: Burning Compassion
Published December 7, 2005
The response last week to a fire in my town, Hardwick, exemplified everything that’s good about small-town life — in fact, everything that’s good about people in general. Before the fire trucks had left Main Street, townspeople were raising money, donating everything from furniture to new underwear, and making up the beds in their spare [...]