I often hear, especially in the Jewish community, how some people like to “give back.” This refers to giving money to charities or good causes or donating time to help others. This phrase has always bothered me. To “give back” you have to have a lot — or at least more than you need. People [...]
Read more →An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, by Susan Rosenberg is an important new book. The book is more about Ms. Rosenberg as an American Prisoner than an American Radical since most of the book covers her 16 years in Federal prison for the crime of transporting explosives and guns as part of [...]
Read more →I recently attended a presentation about the Massachusetts School “Foundation Budget” by the Mass Budget and Policy Center at the State House, co-sponsored by the State Representative Jason Lewis from Winchester and the Mass Teachers Association, (MTA. I am no policy expert, but I learned that the Education Reform Bill passed in 1993 established a [...]
Read more →My wife and I went to Small Claims Court today. A contractor had built a deck and the railings began to rot after a few years. After trying many times call and write to him and getting no answer, we hired a carpenter to fix it since it was a safety hazard. It cost us [...]
Read more →As President Obama plans on pursuing those who committed fraud in banking and mortgage lending that led to the economic and foreclosure crisis, I am reminded of a story I heard recently. A friend had worked for a multi-national corporation in Europe. While he was there, the US Government enacted a law that forbade companies [...]
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