1. “While for much of the pandemic a rush to suburbia made the home and real estate stars of the recovery, the resulting plunge in inventory and dearth of building supplies have launched home prices beyond the grasp of many potential buyers, particularly at the lower end of the market.” Reuters excellent News Service Friday […]
Disability and Elderly Issues
Exclusive: US legislator Glenn Thompson prepares to build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VII, Number 4..Sunday, July 18, 2021. Rural Williamsport, Pennsylvania, population 28,186. {By contrast, New York City’s population is 8.4 million. Distance between them 192 immeasurable miles.) Rep. Glenn Thompson (Republican—very rural PA—committed to building a city of 100,000 in Indiana County PA Money is about to flow like water into the […]
Remembering Jean and Marvin Staiman and their love of Israel
The void my synagogue is experiencing as a result of Marvin’s death concerns those actions Marvin regarded as essential to his view of what it means to be a Jew. For one thing, being a Jew for Marvin meant praying to God in Hebrew and Aramaic (the language of Jesus). The second requirement, even more significant than Hebrew prayer, is working to preserve the State of Israel. Eretz (land of) Yisrael (Israel).
Laugh and weep: NURSING HOMES BY JOHN OLIVER
“We do need to do something. And it all starts with showing we give a shit about what happens to the elderly and people with disabilities in this country. Cause evidence points the the fact that we absolutely don’t.”
1971 birthday letter to my father
If by Rudyard Kipling
In 1964 my mother Miriam met a man at a convention in the Catskills for Hebrew educators. They fell in love instantly and decided to marry .Oscar shortly after became my third stepfather. At the time I was a sophomore at Cheltenham High School in suburban Philadelphia. As seemed typical of my development toward adulthood […]
Grandfather (that’s me) relocating to NYC to save my life at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
It is New Year’s Eve. I am now a resident in room 822B of the Queens NewYork Regal Heights Nursing Home and Physical Rehab Center. I am freaking out a bit. Writing about architeture. Meanwhile, in the bed next to me is a 90 year old man who cannot speak.The good news is I […]
Why I relate ending hunger in US America to writing about my cancer survival for The New York Times
The current shameful problem that children are starving in US America because they are poor is easily solved Ending hunger in US America is easily solvable Hunger in America was easily solvable 44 years ago when I published “Food Stamp Program, As It Is, Has Very Few Friends” in the NYT News of the Week […]