Veterans’ Advocate Raymond Toenniessen
In the Green Room
The Voyage Home
The Glittering Lens That Brought Me Back to Alaska
Heading Home In Search of One of the World’s Most Remote Lighthouses
by Theresa Levitt|
One of my favorite places as a kid was the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, where I never got tired of ascending the vast spiral ramp at the entrance that ran its way around a large eagle-aeried spruce tree. At the top of a ramp was a Fresnel lens from the Cape Spencer lighthouse—hundreds of glittering crystals in an intricate brass frame reaching higher than my head. I never quite …
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In the Green Room
VA Chief Dean Norman
Dr. Dean Norman is chief of staff of the VA Greater Los Angeles heathcare system. Before participating in a panel on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are changing medicine, he talked in the …
The Voyage Home
My Grandmother in Exile
Today is the 65th anniversary of what we Palestinians call the Nakba, when we were expelled from what is now Israel in 1948. My grandmother, Khadija, is one of those who were forced out. A …
The Takeaway
Parsimony, Be Gone
Austerity never works. This was the argument of Brown University political economist Mark Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, as he offered his perspective on economic policy to an audience at …
In the Green Room
Green Vets L.A. Founder Jim Cragg
Jim Cragg is the president and founder of Green Vets Los Angeles—a nonprofit that hires veterans to make reusable shopping bags—chief executive of defense contractor Special Operations Technologies Inc., and a veteran. Before participating in …
Up For Discussion
The Stimulus-Sequester Seesaw
Over the past year, the United States has seesawed from stimulus to sequester. Right now, we’re cutting spending in order to reduce the nation’s deficit, but in President Obama’s first term, we spent in order …
The Takeaway
Should Florida Love Immigration Reform?
A higher percentage of immigrants live, work, and own businesses in Miami than in any other city in America. But as comfortable as South Florida has become with absorbing people from around the world, the …
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