Friends, There’s been a good bit of feedback to yesterday’s post about SAYMA, some quite vitriolic. In reply, I can think of nothing better to than to offer this guest post, by the late Alan Robinson of Asheville NC Meeting. He was a longtime member there, and suffered through several years of Sharon Smith’s intrusions … Continue reading Response Re: SAYMA’s Travail; A Guest Post
Over the past decade, I’ve witnessed and reported on the breakup of five U.S. Yearly Meetings. This “assignment” was at best unpleasant, and often disheartening. After the fifth schism, I had hoped the ugly epidemic was over. But now there’s a possible Number Six. A showdown for it is coming on July 20. The previous … Continue reading SAYMA Showdown: Another Yearly Meeting Split?
A Brief Editorial: Mr. Bob Unanue, president of Goya Foods, doesn’t quite get it. He’s catching hell since visiting the White House and fawning over the president, talking about how we are “blessed” that his mainly Latino customers have a president who built his political rise on denigrating them in so many ways: building walls, … Continue reading Goya is Hearing from its customers. But is it getting the message?
This Washington Post article, “Trump pushes schools to open in the fall, downplaying risks as virus spreads,” in my view seriously understates the convergence of tensions rapidly approaching panic among many of the stakeholders involved: > depression-strapped school districts lackIng funds to pay teachers; > legions of teachers are angry & resistant about facing life-threatening … Continue reading Fall Forecast: School Chaos Coming
I’ve done pretty well at ignoring the steady stream of anti-Trump tell-all books. I haven’t spent ten cents or ten minutes in The Room Where It Happened with John Bolton. I didn’t warm myself with Michael Wolff’s Fire & Fury. Unhinged may have been Omarosa’s cri de couer, but it failed to make me crazy enough … Continue reading Mary Trump: Will she really throw the book at Uncle Donald?