Keeping Time
Essays on current events, human rights, and social and economic justice
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The Alligator Shoe Drops
As bankruptcy court hearings begin today in St. Louis on Patriot Coal’s petition to eliminate retiree…
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Bracketology
If you’ve watched the NCAA basketball tournament matchups over the past several decades, you will have…
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Patriot Drops the Bomb
Patriot Coal has asked bankruptcy court to terminate all retiree health care obligations and radically restructure…
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The Catholic 7, More Hoopla
Here’s a postscript to the previous blog, since the Catholic schools continue to make news on…
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Confessions of a Basketball Junkie
As I watched Notre Dame survive through five overtimes to beat Louisville last Saturday, I had…
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Echoes of History
“Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts that have occurred have been…
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Fairness at Patriot
Peabody Energy today got a first taste of what promises to be an intense in-your-face confrontation…
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Getting Back to the Dream
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while on a mission to Memphis, where he’d gone…
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Here’s a Christmas Card
My friend Kieran recently sent me a single from his acapella band, Cartoon Johnny, offered free…
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A Time to Grieve. A Time to Act.
We must act. We must change. We must try to prevent more tragedies like the Sandy…
