“I HAVE SAID this before, and I will say it again – the vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy.” — John Lewis, 2019 Spoken by the late, great congressman from Georgia nearly a year before his passing and following decades of intense, […]
Steven W. Tompkins
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Race dialogues
CURRENT NATIONAL DISCOURSE urges us all to choose a side. Black Lives Matter versus Police Lives Matter. Build a Wall versus Stronger Together. Political Correctness versus Straight Talk. What gets lost in this “us versus them” dichotomy is our ability to disagree without being disagreeable. We seem to have lost sight of the utility of […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Drug Addiction, Opinion
Ending driver’s license suspension for drug offenders
I APPLAUD THE members of the 189th General Court of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for finishing what their colleagues in the Senate started in September by unanimously supporting legislation that repeals the automatic suspension of a driver’s license for convicted drug offenders. While the bill is entitled, “An Act relative to motor vehicle license […]