What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
Trawling the news feeds, I often find two articles in the same publication that, without referring to each other, tie together a much larger story than either tells.…
Singer-songwriter John Prine turned 66 today, Oct. 10. ‘Happy Birthday!’ to one of the best there is. I was surprised when WUMB’s Perry Persoff saluted Prine this…
Progressives have roasted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for telling Iowa State Fair goers that corporations were people. Rants about ‘corporate personhood’ popped up everywhere. But ‘corporate personhood’ is…
Since early childhood, I’ve loved government buildings. I spent a few minutes today in the sunshine outside the Massachusetts Statehouse. *** In 1971, I began working for the…
Some things about ‘working on the railroad/all the live long day’ haven’t changed much over the years. In the Spring of 1883, a Philadelphia baseball team entirely composed of one-armed men took…