Robert Putnam and an Omaha Community of “We”

Robert Putnam and an Omaha Community of “We”

There is a troublingly massive and widening opportunity gap for kids today, asserts expert Robert Putnam. The most significant criterion that defines this gap is class, illustrated by conditions of increasing community segregation by wealth and by level of educational...

Is Omaha, NE like Flint, MI?

This question popped into my head Sunday morning as I finished reading this article in the New York Times, “Flint Wants Safe Water, and Someone to Answer for Its Crisis.” At the end of the piece is this quote from the newly elected Mayor of Flint: “It does let us know...