From Gene’s Notebook Twenty two Afro-American men, just-released prisoners from a southern Illinois jail, are in the bank-turned-into-bus-station in a treeless and deserted section of St. Louis, just across the river from the jail. They wear grey swears and white tee shirts, and they are carrying small bags. Soon, they board the Greyhound for Chicago, [...]

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A note from Stan An email from Credo, a progressive activist group, alerted me to an alternative to the currently planned economic suicide pact, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has introduced the “No BAILOUTS Act” (Bringing Accountability, Increased Liquidity, Oversight, and Upholding Taxpayer Security), based on a suggestion from [...]

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A fond remembrance from Stan If you like your music enthusiastically performed and widely varied and haven’t stopped by Joe’s on the Boulevard on a Wednesday evening, then I suggest you do yourself a favor and toddle over there somewhere around nine. Go earlier, if you’re hungry. I had a very well-prepared salmon fillet a [...]

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