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Jim McKeever

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The Road to Extinction is lined with ignorance and selfishness

We are living a lie. Two of them, actually. One is a chronic self-deception that we can see every day…

Black Friday, Climate Change, COVID-19, Great Law of the Iroquois, selfishness, seven generations, species extinction, willful ignorance

How would you fill in the blanks?

As I dropped off a friend at his home recently, I noticed two women nearby. They were holding hands. One…

assumptions, community, kindness, prayer, psychology, race, respect

GOP delegation blasted for stoking fear and hatred at southern border

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) criticized the “rhetoric of fear and hatred” used Monday by Rep. John Katko (R-NY) and…

The rewarding encounters of a U.S. Census enumerator

Yesterday I ended my six-week stint as an enumerator with the U.S. Census Bureau, going door-to-door as part of the…

COVID-19, enumerator, espanol, poverty, Syracuse, The Great Depression, U.S. Census, U.S. Constitution

America has a gun addiction problem

Originally posted on Sense of Decency:
Photo illustration © Michelle Gabel By MIKE DONOHUE In the days since the Uvalde massacre, there…

‘The world’s explicit bias is on display’

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A mother holds her son close as the wind picks up and snow falls at the…

Historian demands a reckoning with our racist past

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Historian Ty Seidule will speak Friday, March 4 at 7 p.m. at the Catherine Cummings Theater,…

Do we dare climb that hill?

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A house in Earlville, NY, has had this sign on the lawn for many months. Photo…

The path we choose makes all the difference

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An inviting path into the woods was made ugly by racist graffiti at a trailhead last…

The voices at the other end

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Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, NY. Photo © Michelle Gabel. By JIM McKEEVER I won’t…

It’s what you leave behind you when you go

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Photo © Michelle Gabel 2008. By JIM McKEEVER Ten years ago, during the welcoming ceremony for…

Humanity Knows No Borders

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Our companion, an asylum seeker recently released from an immigration detention center in Calexico, Calif., asked…

My New Normal is Going to the Dogs

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Author John Grau, ensconced in his new normal. Photo © Mary Beth Grau. By JOHN GRAU…

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