Dispatches – Page 10

Dispatches: New Jersey’s greasy palms

I forgot to post this on Tuesday (the week before’s also never got posted to the blog), so here it is: Dispatches on Garden State corruption and the need for municipal consolidation.

Dispatches: The economy and the shredded social safety net

Dispatches, on the shredded social safety net and the exponential growth in need in this recession, is on our site.

Dispatches: Image is everything

Dispatches is up — on the primacy of the image in our culture and its danger for our democracy (features an interview with Chris Hedges).

Dispatches: We’re all a-Twitter

This week’s Dispatches is about our use of Twitter and the changing newscape.

Dispatches: Budget gimmicks galore

Politics, as it always does, poisons discussion of state finances. Read Dispatches.

We are looking to raise seed money for an anthology of writing on Alzheimer’s and dementia. The anthology will be the first project from a new small press. All proceeds will go to research and care groups. Contributors who donate $20 or more will get copies of the anthology and a mention on the acknowledgements page. Writers, we are looking for poems, fiction, and essays on dementia and Alzheimer’s. They can be from any perspective — care-givers, family, the person with dementia.

Contribute here.