Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Bipartisanship Lives
You still hear the word, and it remains a kind of ideal, a word meant to win approval for arguments, policies, proposals. “This has bipartisan support.” “These figures come from the bipartisan office of….” But the way Washington acts, the … Continue reading
A “Sleeping Beauty” To Stabilize a Neighborhood
The old St. Charles Hospital on New York St. in Aurora had been vacant since 2010, ironically the year it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. Then in early 2016 Mayor Tom Weisner put together a team … Continue reading
Our Kids
In his latest book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam deepens and makes even more personal a theme he has worked on for decades: how our increasingly fragmented, isolated lives are endangering the very … Continue reading