After our regular Legislative Update, we provide two charts from a NY Times piece that triggers an analysis of how economic policies advanced by Democrats and the GOP have elicited stunningly different results, and how this should offer NM a… Read More ›
We begin with a legislative update, followed by a feature piece on how our legislators are getting weak-kneed in the face of gas and oil lobbyists descrying that this is not the time to “send a message to G&O.” At… Read More ›
Today’s feature piece is on prison life, life that is bad in government-owned prisons, but far worse in private prisons. We cite Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption and offer a moving video from women “Lifers” in Munch… Read More ›
Also in today’s post, a powerful Bill Moyers video interview with civil rights activists James Cone and Taylor Branch, another quote from MLK, Jr. on the importance of bold progressive action, and an update on our advocacy plans in this… Read More ›
We reflect on the late-Lynne Fischer who passed on January 5, 2020, an ominous start to a year that turned tragic in so many ways. But today we celebrate her life and acknowledge that the anniversary of her death came… Read More ›
I don’t need to tell you what is going on in Washington, D.C. right now. If you don’t know, turn on your TV to any channel. It is insurrection and it is treason, but we have problems right now at… Read More ›