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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The pictures grip our hearts; the policies spin our heads.  Curbing the current flow of migrants at our southern border requires massive coordination, especially with the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. This means thinking…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The images from our southern border are disturbing. Watching hundreds of children and other would-be asylum seekers crowded into facilities meant to hold far fewer and only briefly is unsettling. It’s hard to shake the video clip of two men dropping a three-year-old and five-year-old over…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Getting tired standing for hours in line waiting to vote in Georgia? Want someone to give you water or a snack?  If you live in Georgia, that is now illegal.  It’s just one of many restrictions the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The roadmap to robust democracy starts with access to information, even when public officials don’t want you to have it. Your right to know is enshrined in The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Both federal and state…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill used to say, “All politics is local.” He might not recognize the world today, in which politics has become increasingly nationalized, and media coverage has gone the same way. Political dialogue for more…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. If we believe the headlines, it’s time to run the hot shower to clean off the sleaze. It appears Andrew Cuomo has fallen from America’s covid-hero Governor to just another fanny-grabbing, sexually inappropriate power-stoked politician.  Whether he’ll…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Never has our capacity for patience been so frighteningly tested as in the pursuit of vaccines. I have written about finally connecting and getting my first shot. (Fingers crossed for the second shot.) Examples abound of others still…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   iding and abetting an armed insurrection against the peaceful transition of government at the Capitol January 6 wasn’t enough for the Covid rules-flouting, grandstanding hypocrite and perhaps most despised member of the U. S. Senate – Texas’…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The most bipartisan impeachment in our nation’s history ended up ten brave enough Republicans short of conviction. So we finished in a place that seemed certain from the outset. Still, a majority of the U.S. Senate voted to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Black History Month feels different this year. It’s not just because of the apparent increase in special programming on television and the expansion of relevant articles in the print media, though both of those have burgeoned. Nor is…