29 Mar 2012

Fed Report Says Break Up The Big Banks

by | Date: 29 Mar 2012 | posted in: Banking, From the Desk of David Morris, Public Good News, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

One more report decrying the scale and potential for mischief of our large banks might pass unnoticed except for its source: the Federal Reserve System, the oversight wing of large banks. When the regulatory center of capitalism blows the whistle on the actual center of capitalism that’s big news.  In the lead essay of a new … Read More
26 Mar 2012

Boston Community Capital Shows the Way on Foreclosures

by | Date: 26 Mar 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, Public Good News, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

While the nation’s biggest banks, with a taxpayer bailout of more than $2.5 trillion and counting, continue to refuse to write down the principal on a mortgage to allow people to stay in their homes, Boston Community Capital (BCC) is showing what is possible.  This small non profit is buying houses out of foreclosure, selling them … Read More
10 Feb 2012

Where is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him?

by | Date: 10 Feb 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, governance, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. And the word anarchism … Read More

Mitt Romney
3 Feb 2012

Challenging the Republican’s Five Myths on Inequality

by | Date: 3 Feb 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, governance, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Recent comments by Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee for President all but guarantee the inequality issue will remain front and center this election year. When asked whether people who question the current distribution of wealth and power are motivated by “jealousy or fairness” Romney insisted, “I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class … Read More
25 Jan 2012

Why Does Archbishop Nienstedt Believe Jesus Was Obsessed With Sex and Not Injustice?

by | Date: 25 Jan 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A few weeks ago John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis wrote a widely publicized letter to a priest threatening to strip him of his “ministerial assignments” if he spoke out against a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. In addition to banning dissent the Archbishop directed parishes to form committees to work for … Read More
9 Jan 2012

Is the Super Bowl a Socialist Enterprise?

by | Date: 9 Jan 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Is the Super Bowl a socialist enterprise?  Yes the language is provocative but not, I believe, inappropriate.  After all Indiana, the site of the next Super Bowl,  is currently governed by those who insist government should play a minimal role and the word they, and their Republican counterparts around the country  use to describe those who … Read More

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