This article was originally published on November 11, 2016 in the Huffington Post. His Secret of Success with Women: “When You Are Done Listening, Listen Some More” Leonard Cohen, our greatest troubadour of the soul, has been an inspiration to me since my 1960’s childhood. That’s when my Aunt Esther gave me two albums...
In the Summer of 2022, Progressive Source participated in an effort to stop a farm destroying multi-billion dollar development project in the City of Davis, California. Proponents of the development sought to change Davis’s general plan to allow a massive construction project. Because changes to the general plan require voter app...
From the Sonoma Independent’s article UC Davis “Be the Media” Course Breaks New Ground for Climate Activism published March 2, 2022. “Climate Solutions Advocacy: Be the Media”, a first of its kind ecology course, will be offered to UC Davis graduate students as a participatory seminar starting March 30.The cla...
This article first appeared in the Sonoma Independent on 12/16/19. Last month, the Sonoma Independent won two first place awards for digital media during the San Francisco Press Club’s 42nd annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards Dinner, held on November 7th, 2019. First place for the Digital Media: Feature Story/Serio...
Descended from the only black chief ever to lead a Native American tribe, this historical biography of civil rights kingfish and international oil broker Jake Simmons Jr., this historical biography takes readers through a little known but significant chapter of African-American history. Staking A Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making ...
This article was first published on April 11, 2017 in the Maui Independent. Residents pay 1,000 times more per gallon than a $2 billion company that consumes 80% of the public water on Maui For generations, the myth that what was good for the Alexander & Baldwin corporation was good for the residents of Maui allowed Hawaii’s ...
“Rich List” chapter excerpt from biography, ‘The Man Who Had Everything Malcom Forbes’ by Christopher Winans (PDF here). Jonathan Greenberg who started at Forbes in 1980 as a research assistant, was asked in June 1981 if he would volunteer to work on a Rich List, as the project came to be known internally. From th...
Black Gold: The Simmons Family of Oklahoma An African-American Oil Dynasty By Jill Nelson. It is the rare biography that challenges a reader’s senses in the same way science fiction does: creating a world of its own, complete with geography, characters and a value system that consistently undermines a reader’s assumpti...
New York Magazine. A new tidal wave of crime has swept over New York, adding terrifying numbers and stories to a city already plagued by violence. In the next 24 hours, 5 New Yorkers will be killed, 9 will be raped, 256 will be robbed, 332 homes and stores will be burglarized, and 367 cars will disappear. That’s if things ...
February 26, 2018 3 min to read
New York Times Op Ed: Subsidizing Commercial Rents
Category : Articles, Commentary
What can be done to preserve small businesses in New York? Leaning against a wall on East 7th Street in Manhattan, a withered old man can be found on most days star ing aimlessly, a pile of clothes beside him. The neighbors say he stands out side of a store that had once been his tailor shop. After being forced out when his rent ...