Losing At Home

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 24, 2010 By Perry Redd Are we there yet?  Have we rebounded from the downed economy of two years ago?  Our dear President tells us that we’ve made leaps and bounds from where we were.  We gained 100,000 new jobs last month, we had […]

The Last Word On Tucson

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 18, 2010 By Perry Redd The shooting in Tucson is over.  The victims have been honored and the country has mourned.  There has been tons of commentary and analysis in the week since.  A week of finger-pointing, blame-shifting and responsibility-dodging.  The facts have been […]

The Tea Party Is On the Rampage

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 8, 2011 By Perry Redd I am of the mind that our country is in the midst of a dramatic change—a change for the worst.  Race is at the center of this change.  Now that the Republicans have won back the House of Representatives—with […]

Controlled Amnesia

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary January 4, 2010 By Perry Redd Now that the Republicans own one chamber of Congress and weakened the majority of the Democrats in the Senate, they are cocky as hell.  They want to reverse all of the gains that the Democrats have made in the […]