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Category: Charity & Justice

Addressing hunger: Republicans say charity; Dems say government

January 31, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Charity & Justice, Community/Common good, Demographics/Polls, Homelessness, Poverty, Survey 3 comments

If charity was the answer to our problems, then there would be no homelessness in America, no poverty in general. We would have a

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Life will be harder to understand without the Rams

January 19, 2016 Arthur Lieber Capitalism, Charity & Justice, Cities, Sports Leave a comment

Like many people, I have mixed feelings about the Rams leaving St. Louis for Los Angeles. In some ways, they parallel the mixed feelings

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Americans are too charitable

September 9, 2015 Arthur Lieber Charity & Justice, Food, Homelessness, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

You can tell a lot about a society by what its citizens compliment themselves about. You might also learn a great deal about a

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You can be mean and still sound rational

August 10, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Media, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

A recent article published here on Occasional Planet stated that the Republican debates last Thursday night were not as much of a clown car

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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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Red-light camera refund

January 13, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Cities, Corporations, Legal issues/Law, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Sometime between 2005 and 2014, I got nailed by a red-light camera. I don’t remember the date or the time, but I do remember

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After Ferguson: Small reforms, big potential

December 5, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Cities, Courts Leave a comment

Ferguson has consequences—and some of them may be positive. The tragedy of Michael Brown’s death in August 2014 has been a consciousness-raiser with ramifications

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Ferguson grand jury: Same old inequality, different venue

November 26, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Charity & Justice, Civil liberties, Courts, Police 2 comments

The decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown is wrong in multiple ways, not the least of which

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Micro-sized houses with potentially huge impact around the world

March 4, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Homelessness, Human Rights, Ideas, International, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Great news from the humanitarian ideas department. In 2006, Doug Sharp, of Des Moines IA, put together a team of architects with the goal

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No roses, no chocolates: Other ways to show some love on Valentine’s Day

February 12, 2014 Renee Shur Activism, Charity & Justice, Children, Corporations, Health, Ideas 2 comments

Recently I received an online solicitation for Valentine’s Day from a surprising source. It wasn’t from a florist or a greeting-card company. It came

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Science & Technology

Lima beans, the scientific method, and saving the planet

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Apps for refugees: merging technology and humanitarianism

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