Dispatches from a Scamdemic

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People ascribe magic to a calendar. And life is full of train metaphors. On the first day of kindergarten, in order to teach us the months and give her class a sense of identity and community, my teacher cut a locomotive and twelve train cars out of construction paper of several…
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The Fresh Air Fund is a charity that sends New York City kids to its wooded summer camps in upstate Fishkill, 70 miles away. In 1978 and 1979, I worked…
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On the third anniversary of the worst exercise of public policy in American history, and while most people would now like to forget the Scamdemic so…
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In April, 2010, I visited Nicaragua with one of my teen kids, Lena. I wanted to spend a chunk of memorable time with her before she left for college. We…
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During my years as an attorney, I had a series of cases venued in Camden, New Jersey. I could describe Camden at some length. Briefly, this…
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I attended a four-day anti-Coronamania retreat and now need to catch up on life. Thus, I don’t have time to write this week. I’ll post again next week…
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Last week, Kyrie Irving, a professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets, demanded to be traded. Under duress, the Nets sent him to the Dallas…
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In the late 1980s-early 1990s, I spent many Saturdays rehabbing an apartment building above an old, fire-gutted bank at 292-98 South Orange Avenue…
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