arole McNall (@carolemcnall) May 12, 2020 A1: @Joebonamasa partnered with @keepingthebluesalive to provide a relief fund for touring musicians. Here he has listed special events with the guitarist as well as an easy text form of donation. It’s a definitive… Read More ›
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What Stevie Wonder song gives us the best hope for the future?
Not necessarily one song, but the fact that he’s been making fine music for so long. #JandoliChat — Carole McNall (@carolemcnall) May 12, 2020 A6: Tempted to go with the three-minute ending coda of “Isn’t She Lovely,” which is one… Read More ›
A media company becomes the story
By Ty Johnson COVID-19 has forced businesses across the world to face new challenges. In the United States, businesses deemed essential are able to stay open, but certainly not under normal conditions. Businesses deemed non-essential cannot operate at all. One… Read More ›
Neil Young’s ‘Ohio’ Still Resonates 50 Years Later
By Stephen Wilt A half-century ago almost to the day, Neil Young would write arguably one of the greatest protest songs of all time. Young having a short break between tours was comfortably sitting in road manager Leo Makota’s California… Read More ›
To defeat COVID-19, the global community must work together
By Lorenzo Cladi and Stephen Green “We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are in the same boat.” These were the wise words of financier Bernard Baruch, who was an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson… Read More ›
Mike Greenblatt: ‘True American martyrs for peaceful protest’
When I was researching for my Woodstock book Back To Yasgur’s Farm, I came across information that in 1969 New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller wanted to call in the National Guard to disperse the 500,000 of us at the butt… Read More ›
Denny Wilkins: ‘The day I first understood journalism’
I became a journalist in April 1970 at my hometown paper. I had little understanding of the profession. On May 4, government fired on its own citizens, killing four and wounding nine. Repeat: A government fired at its own citizens… Read More ›
Chris Mackowski: ‘When protesters demanded accountability, government responded with violence’
The Kent State protesters demanded government accountability; the government responded not with answers but with violence. At a time when the current administration resists similar calls for accountability, and its supporters enable that defiance, Kent State reminds us of the… Read More ›
COVID-19 pandemic illustrates New York’s upstate/downstate split
By Samantha Burgio At schools in New York full of students from different parts of the state and different states altogether, conversations and debates of “upstate New York vs. downstate New York” are never scarce. People who do not know… Read More ›
How Super Tuesday Part III ended the Democratic primary contest
By Joe Ceraulo For the third straight week, a Tuesday filled with primary elections came up big for former Vice President Joe Biden. Three states (Arizona, Florida and Illinois) held primary elections on Tuesday, March 17, after Ohio opted to… Read More ›