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Don’t let cynicism get in the way of seeing good work: Project Relief

May 9, 2025 by Shay
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Life moves fast and technology over the years has helped to make life move even faster and, while much of today’s technology has added to our lives, the uncomfortable truth is that it has also taken away from our lives. In the last 20 years, we have become a society where information is literally at …

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The need for papers: An oversight 52 years ago and its impact today

March 30, 2025 by Shay
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As this administration makes it clear that we will all soon need to carry papers proving that we are citizens if we don’t want to be shuttled off to some random country for exercising First Amendment rights or something—and with the deadline looming for Real ID to finally go fully into effect after years of …

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From COVID to fascism: Tapping into our collective humanity

March 18, 2025 by Shay
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March 13, 2020. The day that the United States declared Covid a National Emergency and life as we knew it would change forever. I remember the day clearly; I had gone down to Boston earlier that week to shut down my office for a few weeks because of what we were then just calling the …

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