On the night the Ferguson Grand jury’s decision broke, a friend sent me an email: “Something was clearly broken in the Ferguson community long before Michael Brown died. Time and energy needs to be spent on figuring out what went wrong and how you begin again to build trust — because it will have to […]
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No Wasted Opportunity to Fight Hunger Comments Off on No Wasted Opportunity to Fight Hunger
A story from almost everyone’s childhood involves being told they should finish eating all of their dinner. After all, the argument went, a child living in Somalia, Indonesia or even down in Honduras, is going without food as you sit there and waste yours. Today in America, parents don’t have to point to a faraway, […]
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It’s been years since I managed a political campaign, but I get outside of Washington, D.C., nearly every week. With early voting commencing in more than half of the country, and millions of ballots being cast absentee or in person, there is only one thing known for certain: This mid-term election remains fluid. But no […]
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