Homeless Students Would Qualify for Tax Credit Enabling
Full-Time School Attendance

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced legislation this week to create the opportunity for low-income students to stay in their low-income housing and attend school full time.  Existing law forces such students to attend school part-time, or lose [...]

Honeywell, best known for their automatic controls and thermostats, bought the patent to the thermostat in 1916 from Albert Butz boosting the company’s sales to almost $300,000 that year (Honeywell Project 1988: 7). However, just prior to World War II, Honeywell consented to its first contract for the defense department. The United States government [...]

World peace must represent universal efforts. Anti-war priorities are first. However, since oppression is similarly destructive, informed and purposeful, some of us believe oppressors must be exposed and humiliated, if not punished.

This essay was written in response to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to take control of the L.A. Unified School District away from the school board. The issue of mayoral control has since subsided in L.A., but the topic of improving our schools is perennial and often misdirected.
I am new to California, but I [...]