| Jul 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s hard enough not having a safe place to live. Now it’s easier for cities to arrest you for it. “I am afraid at all times,” testified Debra Blake, who’d been forced to live outside in Grants Pass, Oregon for eight years after losing her job and housing. Her...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured“Summertime, and the living is easy, fish are jumping, and”… wait a minute, what is this? It’s a summer camp for kids — but with a disturbing corporate twist. Some outlets of Chick-fil-A, the fast food chicken chain, are now promoting a summer camp where children as...
| Jul 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf the six right-wing dogmatists who now literally rule the Supreme Court wonder why 70 percent of the American people consider them somewhere between politically corrupt and grotesque, they might re-read their own Kafkasesque decision last month perverting the...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFrom attending summer science demonstrations as a kid to volunteering as a high school student, the library has always been an important presence for me. When I was seven and my dad lost his job, my parents leaned on our community to help raise my sister and me. We...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBanks play an outsized role in our communities, for good and bad. They can provide much-needed capital to small businesses looking to hire more workers, loans to first-time homebuyers dreaming of building wealth for their families, and protection to consumers seeking...
| Jul 3, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was written for Inside Sources. It can be republished with attribution to InsideSources.com. I was a student in the late 2000s when I had my first brush with “cancel culture.” A campus group had invited Nick Griffin — a racist Holocaust denier and leader of...
