This is a guest article by Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks. It certainly gave me pause for thought – Simon While America ponders the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon Well explosion on wild life and first responders, the plight of the average American in the Gulf has been either ignored or placed on the [...]

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The sins of child protective agencies are many, and many have detailed them at length. I’ve tossed my hat in that ring on occasion. Mostly, CPS agencies tend to over-interfere in families. I recently ran a piece based on a blog in the New York Times written by attorney Chris Gottlieb. She’s an attorney whose [...]

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This was a subject brought up on our Surviving The 21st Century radio program last Saturday. I for one was shocked. According to our guest Joannie Hughes of the Coastal Heritage Society Of Louisiana the FDA were forcing Fishermen to sign a waiver prior to fishing in the Gulf. This waiver is simple in its [...]

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Opportunity for Philadelphia to honor John Neumann & Katharine Drexel…Philadelphia Citizens.   Last week the Historical Commission of the City of Philadelphia voted to permit demolition of the former Assumption Parish on Spring Garden Street. Seemingly this is the end of a long struggle to preserve the historically significant structure that has languished for many [...]

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I was deeply saddened to learn that the numbers of homeless in the U.S. are increasing all too rapidly. One of my neighbors works with them and I am trying to get a sack of fresh rolls to her that one of my daughters brought us from a new Costco store in Manhattan yesterday: I [...]

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