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Oh Hey. There Are People in the Food System.
Monday night I listened to a presentation about the Our Harvest Union Co-op in Cincinnati. They are modelling themselves after Mondragon, but with a union twist. The goal is to put a little more...
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The Classism and Ignorance of Liberals
This photo came from “Being Liberal” on Facebook. My friend posted it with some comments about how problematic it is for liberals to denigrate the rural poor who are then scooped up by the republican...
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Airbnb – Profiles of Gentrification
I’m going to an event in New York this June and I was thinking about using Airbnb. But then I saw this article. As many as 7,500 San Francisco housing units are kept off of the rental market and are...
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A Note on Land Rights
Somehow my last post devolved into a twitter argument about whether or not some parts of Nevada were devoid of people when white people got there and so were open to be homesteaded. I’m not going to...
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Commencement Controversies
It is commencement protest season again. Almost 3,000 people have signed on to a petition to get Chris Christie off the schedule at Rowan University. IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, has...
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Am I The Only One Who Wants to Slap Michael Pollan?
Apparently, Michael Pollan has another book out and this time he is preaching about home cooking. My mother did the vast majority of the cooking when I was growing up. Shopping and cooking seemed to...
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Your Well-Intentioned Regulations Will Not Bring Justice
You have heard of “too big to fail.” Well, the World Bank recently posted a piece called Too Small to Regulate. It is an argument for big business. In fact, it is an argument for industries to be run...
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Hijacking the Sharing Economy
There have been a slew of articles lately about how services like Airbnb and Lyft signal the “rise of the sharing economy.” Forbes says it is “unstoppable” and includes a cover that asks “Who wants to...
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Police Entrapment in DC
About a week ago the Washington Post ran an article about police stings in DC. The D.C. police department is quietly turning to high-risk sting operations in which undercover officers recruit people...
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Why I Am Ambivalent About the Education Debt Jubilee
Just about every Monday for a little over four years I have been going to the library and meeting D to read (mostly) books about black history. D is a lovely man with a couple of decades on me who...
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