This original post ran in June 2011 on the blog; it’s the type of deeply personal piece I hesitate to share anymore in this space. Yet, as I heard about Trump’s proposed budget plan, I was reminded of my own childhood. Working-class in a good year and downright poor in a bad year. The availability …
Arizona has a history of not being very progressive. Banning ethnic studies classes and attempting to extend the bans to more institutions in various efforts from 2015-2017 and for the longest time refusing to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day (more on all that and more here). And now, this year, legislation passed in the …
On Wednesday, Feb. 22, at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, 51-year-old Adam Purinton shot two engineers from India, killing 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounding 32-year-old Alok Madasani. He also wounded two other bar patrons who tried to intervene. One of them, 24-year-old Ian Grillot, who is white, was seriously wounded. After Purinton had been kicked …