April 27, 2022
When I tell people I’m from Baltimore, the immediate follow-up question is almost always, “Is it really like The Wire?” Well, yes. Some of it is. We’re a majority African-American city where 20% of citizens live in poverty. One in 10 Baltimoreans suffers from addiction. There are few job opportunities, and the booming drug trade […]
February 17, 2021
I have been thinking a great deal recently about organizational values. They are not just words… or they should not be. How do they guide what we are? Perhaps more importantly, who do we, as an organization, wish to be? I just surpassed my first eight months as Chief Operating Officer for a large nonprofit, […]
September 3, 2020
The first act of Federal disaster relief in American history was through the Congressional Act of 1803 following a devastating fire through a seaport town in New Hampshire in 1802. The assistance was in the form of suspended bond payments for the merchants affected by the fire, as the areas of the seaport that was […]
March 23, 2020
On January 1, 2020, the use of recreational marijuana became legal in the state of Illinois (410 ILCS 705/ Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act). I am not a big fan of the legalization of marijuana, and no, it’s not for any moral reasons, or the fact I was on the loosing side on the war on drugs. […]
February 12, 2018
As we recognize throughout our policy study, there are usually clear separations in political views with policy agendas. Views on immigration are no different. A June 2015 PEW Research Center trends study found that 71% of Republicans say immigrants in the U.S. are making crime worse, compared to just 34% of Democrats. The same view […]
