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Author: Barbara Finch

Barbara L. Finch is a writer and former public relations practitioner. In 2005 she and three friends founded Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice, an organization of progressive women now numbering more than 500 members and friends.
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Put trigger warnings in their proper place: on actual triggers

April 13, 2017 Barbara Finch Activism, Guns, Widgets: Guns One comment

I’m sure that the college students and mental health professionals who have been leading the effort to impose trigger warnings on textbooks and reading

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Direct Drive: When art is politically controversial

September 28, 2016 Barbara Finch Literature/Arts/Film, Missouri region Leave a comment

I’ve often been told that writers write in order to figure things out.That is definitely the case with this piece, in which I feel

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Do we really need babysitters for Barettas?

July 15, 2016 Barbara Finch Crime/Violence, Guns One comment

Does the image of an armored truck, outfitted with 360-degree surveillance cameras and secured by body-camera-toting security guards, parked on the lot of a

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On-line commenters: The underbelly of journalism and justice in Missouri

May 31, 2015 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Media, Missouri region, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Whenever I think my progressive values might need a reality check, all I have to do is go to the online version of my

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Medicaid: A two-act morality play for Missouri voters

May 19, 2015 Barbara Finch Corruption, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans One comment

Millions of words have been written about Medicaid, and the failure to expand it, in Missouri. The words have fallen on deaf ears. Maybe

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Ad says rifles are a girl’s best friend

January 23, 2015 Barbara Finch Guns, Media Leave a comment

Where is Don Draper when we need him? Draper, of course, is the iconic 1960s advertising executive who stars in the hit TV series,

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After Ferguson: Repentance is not a media event

October 17, 2014 Barbara Finch Activism, Missouri region, Police Leave a comment

Of all the news stories that have been written about the sad horror of the August shooting in Ferguson, MO, has there ever been

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Honey Boo Boo versus the wastewater treatment guy

April 10, 2013 Barbara Finch Consumer issues, Economy, Employment, Financial reform, Media, Uncategorized One comment

It happens every year, in the early spring.  Right before we become obsessed with NCAA basketball, and several weeks before pollen blankets our patio

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A funny thing happened on my way to the gun show

January 31, 2013 Barbara Finch Guns, Missouri region, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

On Saturday, January 26, when page three of my morning newspaper featured a story about four local homicides, and when people in cities across

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Clemency for prisoners: Too much control, not enough compassion

December 7, 2012 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Public safety, Sports One comment

As an admitted control freak, it pains me to write these words. But the truth is:  some people have too much control. You don’t

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