Michael Davis, a former Evening Sun and Sun colleague, wrote in response to my Substack post on J.D. Vance's demonization of the homeless of Washington, D.C. A Baltimore rabbi and friend once told me that the homeless present a "moral stoplight." When you are in their presence, he said, you need to stop and acknowledge … Continue reading The ‘moral stoplight’ that Trump and Vance blow through
A fulfillment of the last bill JFK signed
The last bill President John F. Kennedy signed into law was the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, also known as the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. The hope was that people who did not belong in psychiatric hospitals -- asylums, essentially -- could be mainstreamed, returned to their … Continue reading A fulfillment of the last bill JFK signed