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URBAN JOURNAL: Inching toward reform in New York State
Last week in Albany, yet another commission released yet another report on government reform. I had looked forward to this one, hoping it would con... Read More
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URBAN JOURNAL: Is Monroe really one county, one community?
County Executive Maggie Brooks is in a tough spot. If she loses the appeal on her sales-tax plan, she'll have to find some other way to solve the c... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Sacrifice for the environment? Who, us?
Well, happy Earth Week.You'd think that 38 years after the first Earth Day, we'd have a lot to celebrate. Instead, we Earthlings are polluting, was... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Rename the Eastman Theatre? Surely not!
In all the celebration over Kodak's $10 million gift for the Eastman Theatre last week, some blockbuster news slipped under the radar.The Universit... Read More
IRAQ: Facing reality in the Petraeus hearings
"We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat." That was the pronouncement of Senator and presidential candidate John McCain during y... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: The state of our fair city
On our early-morning walk on Tuesday, we heard the season's first redwing blackbird song. We've been hearing robins and cardinals for a couple of w... Read More
MCC PRESIDENCY: Brooks jumps into the fray
So now the county executive has weighed in on the search for an MCC president.In this morning's D&C, Maggie Brooks applauds the MCC board's maj... Read More
ELECTION 2008: Race, religion, and Barack Obama
In his classic study of race in America in 1992, "Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal," Andrew Hacker includes a pre... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Obama, preachers, and prophets
Curious things happen when religion and politics collide. Right-wing commentators have had a grand old time hooting at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. An... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: MCC, Steve Minarik, and our hick town
So here we are in the Community of Monroe, trying to reverse our terrible slide. Competing for new business. Hoping to lure bright young workers. H... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Iraq after five years
In the five years since the United States invaded Iraq, Americans have paid a terrible price, in lives, money, and reputation.For Iraqis, the invas... Read More
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In URBAN JOURNAL: Inching toward reform in New York State
In URBAN JOURNAL: Inching toward reform in New York State
In URBAN JOURNAL: Is Monroe really one county, one community?
In URBAN JOURNAL: Obama, preachers, and prophets
In URBAN JOURNAL: Rename the Eastman Theatre? Surely not!