Paul Ash
Spending summers on his grandparents farms in Oklahoma, Paul Ash got a glimpse of the agrarian life his family lived for generations.
Green for All testifies before Congress
This is unrelated to the inauguration but a real sign of our times.
Oakland’s own Van Jones testified in the first hearing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on Thursday, urging them to green the stimulus plan, fully fund the Green Jobs Act and create a “Clean Energy Corps to retrofit [...]
Kerner Commission 40 years ago and today: problems and solutions for America’s inner city poor and what Obama can do about it
The last time there was a Democratic majority of this kind in national politics was in the 1960s in Lyndon Johnson’s administration. Johnson would pass more legislation then almost any other president in American history. It would include Medicare, civil rights laws and the War on Poverty. But the Great Society, a sort of new [...]
