by Jeff Bryant | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog
Striking public school educators in West Virginia overcame all odds in getting lawmakers to agree to a five-percent pay raise and a realistic commitment from the state to address a broken public employee health insurance program. Equally remarkable is how the West...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
Democratic Senators were positively "giddy," according to the New York Times, when President Donald Trump, during a live televised meeting, declared his strong support for gun control and urged Congress to pass a comprehensive bill that would expand background checks,...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog
This time is different. After the horrendous shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students are taking over the debate on gun control that politicians in both parties have so horribly botched for decades. The protests are not confined to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog
St. Paul teachers want to do "phenomenal things" for their students. At least that's what Nick Faber of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers tells me. But what's been holding back him and his fellow educators are the same obstacles to progress in many of our...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
A favorite media tactic of right-wing policymakers is to claim they are the victims whenever those who've had their civil rights or their political voices stifled by their policies make grievances known, and advocate for change. It's a clever way to turn blatant...