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Column: ‘Could You Argue That It Has Ended?’
[Opinion column written by Alex Conyers] “Something ominous began to happen in the United States in 2006. The rate of foreclosures on housing in low-income areas of older cities like Cleveland and Detroit suddenly leapt upwards. But officialdom and the media took no notice because the people affected were low-income, mainly African-American, immigrant... Read more of this article
Column: Having ‘Compu-Personal Syndrome’
[Opinion column written by Alex Conyers] This is the first of what I’ve been thinking for a while, and maybe the first post/editorial of a couple more to come. It is also the first diagnosis [that I know of] of what I think a couple of us might be feeling, experiencing, and/or suffering from, but are unable to put words to. It is a syndrome I have... Read more of this article
In Search For Solutions, We Must Face Problems
[Opinion column written by Alex Conyers] “I think the authors of the Declaration of Independence intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development or social capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they... Read more of this article
Instead Of Drawing Lines, Let Us Draw Circles
[Opinion column written by Alex Conyers] To the unsung heroes and the alias naysayers, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives... Read more of this article
