It’s About Turn-Out, Stupid

Posted January 31, 2014 by Rich Robinson

For over 30 years many of us have engaged in a dispute with our political party. Not over values; but over tactics. The dirty little secret is that Democrats should never lose an election. There have always been more Democrats
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Remembering Pete Seeger, 1919-2014

Posted January 31, 2014 by E. "Doc" Smith

The legendary Pete Seeger left us this week, leaving behind an amazing legacy of music and activism. “Dubbed “America’s tuning fork” by poet Carl Sandburg, the banjo-player left behind folk classics like “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” “If I
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“The Wolf of Wall Street” Throws The Disability Community To The Wolves

Posted January 31, 2014 by Emily Ladau

As I sat in the theater watching “The Wolf of Wall Street” I wasn’t exactly thrilled that a movie with so many disability jokes was receiving Oscar buzz (though I’ll admit I joined the masses in celebrating Leonardo DiCaprio’s chance
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JERUSALEM

Posted January 31, 2014 by Buzzin' Lee Hartgrave

THE BRITISH INVASION Into the woods is where we go. There is Johnny “Rooster” (Brian Dykstra), a local feisty wanted man. The cops want to serve him an eviction notice. That doesn’t seem to bother Johnny, the opinionated eccentric teller
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To the Editor…

Posted January 31, 2014 by

I agree with virtually all points made in this story, it’s very well done, and necessary to say over and over again. However, I strongly disagree with the invitation to protest the soccer games of kids of landlords who engage
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To the Editor…

Posted January 31, 2014 by

Randy Shaw, Editor-in-Chief, Beyond Chron: This is in response to the Jan. 29, 2014, opinion editorial “Postal Workers Launch National Campaign Against USPS Services to Staples” by Sally Davidow of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), AFL-CIO. As you know,
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To the Editor…

Posted January 31, 2014 by

Sometimes it’s about the buses and the corporations that provide them…But sometimes it really is about the bus riders.Here is the voice of one Google Bus commuter whose picture and comments have been repeatedlyportrayed in the media…“My name is Crystal
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To the Editor…

Posted January 31, 2014 by

one thing doesnt exclude the other it is an absurd logic to claim that when there are worse only that should be focused on a better approach is to work with it all and then get a better city in
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