Washington Informer
District residents who want to help the city by serving on a local board or commission may not have as many options in the future as others have had in the past. The D.C. Office of Boards and Commissions…
September 22, 2012 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. It was not the decree that ended slavery in the U.S., but its effect, as an executive order, provided that all…
Congratulations Nationals! Let me be one of the first Washington Informer readers to congratulate the Washington Nationals for earning a spot in the post-season. It's something special about having a major league baseball team in the city where you live,…
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's videotaped remark to wealthy supporters that 47 percent of Americans "believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it" and that "my job is not to worry about" people who…
Now that the so-called Arab Spring has sprung, we are beginning to feel the recoil, and it hurts. Who knows how much more it's going to hurt in the next few months or so? All of the countries that…
One of the most insidious forms of racial discrimination and injustice is the growing manifestation known as racially motivated "economic segregation." Across the United States during the eight years of the Bush administration between 2001 and 2008, banking and…
So welcome to Romneyville, an evolving plutocracy where the super-rich have convinced itself by birthright or wealth-right it is their manifest destiny to govern the rest of us by their self-indulgent rules. Through outright insults or innuendoes they clearly have…
A Clueless Council I enjoy reading James Wright's D.C.'s Political Roundup each week in The Informer. In addition to this week's roundup, his article "Council Members Discuss Hot-Button Issues with Residents" was most interesting. What the article shows me is…
Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney has written off 47 percent of the American electorate who he believes will not vote for him. Throughout this week, a Mother Jones video circulating on broadcast news and the Internet, shows Romney telling donors…
In his "I Have a Dream Speech" delivered at the 1963 March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he dreamed of the day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin but the content…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German protestant theologian, who was executed for opposing Hitler's holocaust, believed that the test of the morality of a society is how it treats its children. I agree and am deeply ashamed that the United States…
I once had a job supervisor who liked to share stories about his past exploits. His first summer job was while he was still in high school. He worked at what was called a "5&10 cent store" –they were then…
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