Following a growing national trend, the NC House introduced a bill in April 2025 that would study the state’s property tax reduction programs with a goal of reform. NC House Bill 432 would direct the Revenue Law Study Committee to evaluate options to decrease property taxes for low-income elderly and disabled residents and disabled veterans…. The post Less Revenue, Fewer…Read More

IS HE JUST MAD OR IS THERE A STRATEGY? More and more people think that the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is suffering from serious mental degradation. They call him crazy, insane, nuts, flipped, deranged, disturbed, bonkers, lunatic, utterly mad and much more. But could it be that his rantings and obsessions hide a rational strategy?Lately, the owner of…Read More

Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life more broadly has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars. The post On the misuse…Read More

This has been a bad week for the future of (gestures at everything) the world. Decisions have been made that will fuck us for years, if not forever. As the savagery of the administration of Donald Trump, our rapist president, snowballs, as the 10,000 person concentration camp warehouses are purchased, as corruption of a scale that should make Warren G.…Read More

Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times (free link here), In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home…Read More

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A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Barack Obama billed the action in Libya as a humanitarian intervention, citing the new U.N. doctrine of “responsibility to protect” (R2P). The president hoped to avert…Read More

Thirty-six years ago, the NAACP had an opportunity to block Clarence Thomas’ path to the Supreme Court. But after a secret meeting between the Black Republican rising star and Althea Simmons, the civil rights organization’s Washington Bureau director, the NAACP blinked. Now, as the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a voting rights case that threatens…Read More

Written By Gene Bergman, City Councilor (Ward-2), Burlington, VermontThe Governor is demanding that we implement Act 73 quickly, especially the school district closure/consolidation provisions, in order to make education affordable. But as more than 5,000 Vermonters who weighed in last year overwhelmingly made clear, the Governor is wrong. Extreme consolidation will not lower taxes or improve education. We need another…Read More

President Donald Trump has been carrying out a frenzied deregulation of financial markets. Recently, the administration stacked the US’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee.On January 30, Trump’s US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, Paul Atkins, a “deregulation zealot,” announced a suite of new officials to the Public…Read More