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Retired labor union official, newspaper editor/reporter, and community worker. Also community activist.

Month: May 2010

  • The Real Cost of Cheap Computers

    I look around in my basement office:   there are no fewer that five working computers.  Plus, my MacBook is upstairs, making a total of six!  Who in the world needs all these?  I don’t.  Yet, the computer companies know the value of frequent up-grades, and therefore my 1999 iMac sits unused — yet perfectly good…

  • A rightwing trend on NPR?

    As a regular donor to WUWM, I must say the NPR station’s decision to drop Alternative Radio is a sad one, indeed.   I’ve been told the hour long program which has been on WUWM at 8 p.m. Sunday nights was dropped as of last Sunday, May 2. Alternative Radio has been one of the few…