Buying the vote or at least the machines, the Romney plan

This week in my professional life, I learned that even for a small non-profit in the relatively sparsely populated state of Maine that the government cares about things like conflict of interest among the board of directors. See, my board chair got married a few months ago to a fellow board member, the same board …

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Obama, Mitt and how we can create real change…reflections on the debate

The last thing I should be doing today is writing a blog post since I have oodles of work for the day job and I am trying to wrap up a submission for paying work and these days I need all the paying work I can get. But after watching last night’s debate between President …

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Black talk, is it good, bad or maybe it’s just language

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” –Audre Lord This well-known quote by Audre Lorde came to mind last night as I read this post over at Denene Miller’s My Brown Baby. It’s an excellent piece written by Denene’s husband Nick, about the subject of code switching in the Black community. In light …

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