August 2021

  Marty Levine August 30, 2021 After 90 minutes I had had enough. That’s how long I could tolerate watching an angry audience attack the Commack School Board, and...

Carole Levine    August 25, 2021 Sometimes this nation says one thing and does another. We like to do what is noble.  At  a particular moment in time, for a...

Marty Levine August 25, 2021 A story in Monday’s Washington Post told a familiar story. For those with wealth and power talking about the need for systemic change is...

Marty Levine August 15, 2021 The rich get richer and the rest of us get ignored. That’s the disturbing theme that emerges from three stories that appeared in my...

Marty Levine August 11. 2021   In the fall of 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan was not unique. It, like cities larger and smaller, was faced with large budget shortfalls and...

It is hard to find someone in politics whom you feel that you can truly trust. It is rare to find someone who is going to speak truth to...

Marty Levine 8/9/21 We have just received a new picture of our nation’s health care system from a new Commonweal Fund report, Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly.  Remember, this...

Marty Levine 8/4/2021 Last week I questioned whether private philanthropy was able to handle the pressing societal challenges we face. A study commissioned by the Urban Institute that was...

Carole Levine   August 3, 2021 The good news is that the economy seems to be rebounding after the pandemic. The Washington Post reported that the U.S. economy has fully...