Access to wireless Internet has become commonplace in both the home and workplace, but when you step out into Downtown Erie, you enter a scattered world of pay-to-use Wi-Fi hotspots—in exchange for buying a drink or meal—and limited public buildings with free online access. So why is it that free wireless Internet access isn’t more widespread in the city of Erie?
There is a little-known, but instrumental program in Erie known as the Maria House Project, which helps men recover from the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, imprisonment, homelessness, and/or mental illness.
Being a sports fan means being able to root like hell for a team, and paint everything in deliciously simple black-and-white, us-versus-them narratives. It’s fun to pull for teams because it’s simple. Our team is good. Their team is not. We tend to turn a blind eye toward things that complicate our fandom.
In the fall of 2011, Bryan got his chance to help out; he would begin to practice the most hazardous profession in the world in the most volatile part of the most dangerous country in the world – Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
In the softly-lit studio of Art of Yoga, people are filing in with their mats. It’s dark out by now and it’s a chilly night, but inside the lamps and plants and wood floors create a cozy, safe atmosphere. This isn’t just any yoga class – this is Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, or Y12SR.
The Federal Reserve’s (“The Fed’s”) power to set interest rates enables it to control economic expansion and contraction. Ordinarily, when the economy expands fairly smoothly, the Fed pursues primarily its mandate to keep inflation low. Inflation is not everybody’s enemy equally. It does hurt people on fixed incomes. But most incomes are not quite fixed. Many rise, one way or another.
From the post office to public education to our water supply and Social Security pensions, conservative radicals seek privatization of programs generations of our forebears thought too critical to subject to the whims of the market and rapaciousness of profit seekers.
