Lost in this week’s spectacular yet inevitable revelations that Wells Fargo illicitly opened millions of unauthorized customer accounts is the company’s illegal treatment of people living with disabilities.Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $16 million in compensation and fines in 2011 in a settlement for denying access to facilities, products and services to people with […]

Children are a most precious gift. We, as a nation, have a moral imperative to protect and nurture our children, to educate them, and to ensure that they have a safe environment in which to grow. To this end, our states have enacted laws to protect our children from being raised in homes where parents

Yet again this nation is mourning what most people are calling a tragedy. The hate murders in Charleston were not a tragedy, they were an inevitability, the inevitability of a culture of violence and a cult of gun ownership.I was unable to complete this post before hearing of another fatal mass shooting. Another movie theater,

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark in civil rights legislation. Less than a generation ago people living with physical, emotional, or cognitive disabilities were largely shut out of employment opportunities, shut out of community life, and shut in their homes. We were invisible and deemed insignificant.I benefit every

Flying the Confederate battle flag is not only racist, it’s seditious. The Confederacy was a movement that broke away from the union, set up it’s own government, created their own currency, and fought to overthrow the legitimate, elected, government of the United States. All so that states could have the heinous “right” to allow white

This just in: Rush Limbaugh becomes expert in behavioral psychology, the Seattle job market and what’s inside Gravity CEO Dan Price’s head all in one week. Forbes To review, on April 15 I posted how Dan Price, owner of the firm, chose to cut his $1 million salary to 70k and made 70k the minimum

My son’s Wheaton Terrier is a great candidate for one of those viral videos with pets chasing a dot of light from a laser pointer. It’s hilarious watching her futile chase to catch the red dot, or, for that matter, any reflected light on the ceiling or walls. While I don’t know what’s going through

There is an insidious movement afoot across the country. A movement to entitle people to receive benefits they did nothing to earn, benefits paid by the rest of us. We are creating a class of freeloaders when there are jobs out there to be had. What’s more, our elected representatives are not only perpetuating this

“Where are you supposed to be? was the first thing an angry policeman said to me, It was Homecoming weekend at Valparaiso University and some of the guys participating in an overseas study program decided to ditch our tour guide and play football in a park, using a hairbrush for a ball.“Where are you supposed