For over a decade, I  have looked at detention and deportation issues in the US. As a professor at Stony Brook University, I often find that what policymakers promise that immigration policies will do does not line up with what actually happens. I have also learned to be wary of the hidden influences …

https://youtu.be/6vujTbYb67Y Congressional candidate — Republican from Fayetteville, NC — Jonathan Dozier, explains the bill up this week that strips disabled Vets of medical coverage for conditions not directly caused by battle. This bill is, in his view, a bad idea. Vets, speak up!

On April 15th, Tax Day, activists from forty-eight states around the country are planning to host marches in protest of President Donald Trump’s decision to not release his tax returns to the public. While Trump is not legally required to make this information public, he is the first President in forty years to choose to …

We were thrilled to welcome George Newall recently, to a lunch in his honor at Civic Hall. He was joined by his lovely wife Lisa Maxwell, a jazz singer and former advertising creative director who now is acting treasurer of Schoolhouse Rock. George Newall is the visionary ad executive/pianist who …

Earlier this year, the Governor of Arkansas signed into law a bill that allows potential baby-daddies to veto abortions that are being sought by women who are pregnant with those men’s potential children. Notably, only eighteen per cent of the State of Arkansas’ lawmakers are women. This kind of headline is hardly news anymore. There have been countless bills …