by admin | Jul 29, 2021 | Activism, Aging, Chicago, Christianity, Crime, Medical, Personal health, Personal history, Public safety, Volunteerism
We are probably all born with a certain focus on our own needs. The first job of a baby is to survive, but ideally, we learn from parents, especially, but also from others around us that somebody else cares and takes care of us when we most need the help. With any...
by admin | Jul 25, 2021 | Activism, Business, Civil rights, Cleveland, Personal history, Racism, Sports
The Major League Baseball team long known as the Cleveland Indians will rename itself at the end of this season as the Cleveland Guardians. The change will surely draw criticism from traditionalists, but it is long overdue. The logo is outrageously racist and...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Activism, Disaster, Disaster policy, Hazard Mitigation, Natural Hazards, Public safety, Wildfire
It is evident with each increasingly serious and increasingly long wildfire season in the West and South that American still has serious public policy work to do in confronting this hazard. Recently, the National Fire Protection Association unveiled its new policy...
by admin | Apr 27, 2021 | Activism, Books, Business, Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Disaster policy, Economics, Environment, Floodplain management, Government, Hazard Mitigation, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Politics, Public policy, Resilience, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water
President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill aims to fix much that is ailing in America, and its sheer size is drawing predictable—and short-sighted—fire from Republicans in Congress. The nation has a great deal of aging infrastructure, which will...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Activism, Books, Careers, Climate, Environment, Housing, Infrastructure, Nature, Public health, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Technology, Transportation, Urban Planning, Volunteerism, Water
About six weeks ago, as the Biden administration was first asserting its priorities regarding climate change and the environment, I reviewed a book about the positive actions already being taken by cities around the world in addressing the climate crisis. The...
by admin | Jan 31, 2021 | Activism, Books, Crime, Government, History, Journalism, National security, Personal history, Political philosophy, Politics, Public safety
Within the last week, I finished reading a nearly 800-page biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, which may raise the question of why I took the trouble. I started only after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election but refused to concede and persisted in disseminating the...
