My Other Country Nineteen Years in Bolivia
A family memoir of a different life
in an unusual place.
The Writer: The Story Behind the Name
I have been a writer for a long time: books, articles, and more. A while ago I had a public tussle with some local officials in our town and learned that in private they never referred to me by name, only as ‘the writer’. I thank them for helping me name both my column in the local newspaper and this Web site.
Facial Recognition Surveillance in Schools
After wasting $2.7 million on its failed facial recognition surveillance system, the Lockport School District owes the community answers. My legal petition that led to a formal state investigation.
The Renewable Energy Rebels
In rural New York State, big wind and solar energy projects are running into determined local opposition. What will it take to win public support for a smart way forward?
New York Review of Books.
A Liberal in Trump Land
Much has been written in the era of Trump about the dividing of America, that we have retreated into enclaves of the like-minded, liberals with liberals, conservatives with conservatives. I do not have that problem. My interview with the New York Review of Books.
One Small Vote for Lockport, A Giant Lesson for 2020 America
The great debate over voting by mail has begun. President Trump denounced it as an invitation to fraud. Democrats call it essential. Here in the small city of Lockport, NY in June we had a test run in miniature of what an all-vote-by-mail election looks like. In the New York Review of Books.
Activism
Photography
Activism
From California to Bolivia and beyond,
stories from four decades in activism.