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Hot on the heels of widespread public outrage over a grand jury’s failure to indict a policeman for shooting Michael Brown to death in Ferguson, MO, we... |
 Dana Goldstein’s book charts the history of America’s “most embattled profession.” |
 Comparing frequencies with the late Herbert Hauptman. |
 As local workers take to the picket lines this Thursday, some thoughts on the “Fight for Fifteen,” the struggle against impoverishment, movement building, and... |
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One unpleasant side effect of the unrest in Ferguson MO, and now spreading across the country, is that a lot of white people are making giant asses of... |
 How and why to become a smaller Western New York. There’s a robust and accessible academic literature about how shrinking cities, even “zombie” cities (Buffalo... |
 This month marks the sixth year since the triumph of hope over helplessness, fear, and greed. |
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Garrison Keillor’s musical salute to Buffalo on this week’s A Prairie Home Companion didn’t miss many tired old cliches. |