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

Month: September 2021

  • Why can’t newspaper report scores of previous night’s ballgame? They used to.

    When the morning newspaper gave out last night’s score What a year this has been for Milwaukee sports!  The Bucks becoming NBA champions and the Brewers on their way to the playoffs, with a promise of a World Series in the offing. Yet, each morning when I pick up the morning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to…

  • Labor Day 2021: Crossroads for Workers

    Labor Day 2021 could mark a crossroads in the future fortunes of America’s working families. Will the “rich get richer and the poor get poorer” trend continue? Will working people continue to be at the mercy of long hours, manipulative managers and unsafe and unhealthy conditions continue? Unless working people begin to understand we live…