VOICES

HIRING DIVERSITY - Pete Carroll seems to have developed his own, personal language for telling NFL owners he DGAF.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - At this point, it's probably the politically independent among those living in this divided nation, and probably those in either party willing to get past partisanship and do the right thing, who are to be respected the most.

PRISON NON-REFORM - Last year, a former federal prison near Folkston, Georgia was emptied after President Biden signed an executive order phasing out the use of private prisons.

GUEST COMMENTARY - This is dedicated to Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist and grande dame of the Californian labor movement, who will be 92 this Sunday, April 10. Feliz cumpleaños! 

GUEST COMMENTARY - On Thursday, March 31, 2022 an American Women’s Peace and Education Delegation visiting Kabul for the past week held a press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel to report on their findings.

OIL & THE ECONOMY - There’s one group of people who aren’t worried about high gas prices this month: Big Oil executives.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - For reasons that escape so many of us, it's deemed to be "pro-Jewish" and "pro-Israel" to cavort with the openly-declared enemies and mortal dangers to Jews both here at home and abroad.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I figured I’d better write this column while doing so is still legal (at least I think it is), but I don’t recommend reading it aloud in a third-grade classroom.

GUEST COMMENTARY - For all of his lip service to Mother Russia and his support for Russian speakers around the world, neither Putin nor the Communist apparatchiks before him, nor the Tsars before them, really understood the power of a mother tongue. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Significant behavior is often over-determined.   Over-determination means a single-observed event was determined by multiple causes,

HOUSING ACTIVIST - Activists in Pasadena, California, took a huge step to pass rent control in their city – and to finally rein in unfair, excessive rents.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - As a dermatologist, I understand first-hand Will Smith's outrage over Chris Rock's comments about "GI Jane 2" when referencing Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.