Who’s BART? or Whose BART?

Who’s BART? or Whose BART?

The new amateur film “Tunnel Vision” is getting some attention in the Bay Area. Basically it’s a recording using a GoPro camera stuck to the lead car on an SFO to Pittsburg BART run with some narration – not the kind of video a Train Operator would want to watch on a...
School Libraries Under Threat in Houston

School Libraries Under Threat in Houston

School libraries are being eliminated in Houston, Texas’s largest public school district, focusing on Black, Latino, and low-income areas. The Houston Independent School District superintendent, Mike Miles, has fired librarians across 28 schools and intends to convert...
NO to the Guilty Verdict in the Baltimore Squeegee Case!

NO to the Guilty Verdict in the Baltimore Squeegee Case!

The trial over the shooting of a motorist by a teenage squeegee worker in Baltimore has come to an end. A year after the shooting the jury reached the verdict that the teenager, tried as an adult, was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the use of a firearm in a crime,...
Actors on Strike

Actors on Strike

On July 14, 165,000 actors represented by SAG-AFTRA went on strike against Hollywood studios. They join the 11,500 writers of the Writers Guild of America, who have been on strike since the beginning of May. This is the first time that both unions have been on strike...
A Pitiful Reduction of Student Debt

A Pitiful Reduction of Student Debt

If you were only reading the bombastic headlines from the past few weeks, you might believe that, despite the recent Supreme Court setback to student debt relief, Biden has still been able to cancel a titanic amount of student debt – $39 billion. The White House...