My Insouciant* Town

Photo by Anthony J. Alaniz Saturday, December 23, 2017 Behind the white picket fences Of 1950 idealization Lies a hatred for the powerless It’s a not-my-problem attitude Of unsavory boles of bigotry Disguised as concerns about property value The homeless are helpless Freezing through a winter As the powerful ponder if their town values people […]

Plight of the modern-day politician

Screenshot from Lenconnect.com Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Politics is a nasty game of abdication. It’s most prevalent at the national level where Political Parties and career hired hands representatives vie for prime TV real estate to peddle lies to a deprived American audience hungry for any sloppy sustenance. It’s been almost 43 years since Political […]

The Dangers of Lenawee County’s Economic Crimes Unit

Image of William Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’  Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 Debtors’ prisons in the United States were outlawed at the federal level in the mid-1800s. A string a Supreme Court cases in the 20th century further outlawed practices associated with such prisons; however, it left some power in the hands of individual judges as […]