Michael Sauers September 20, 2025 When the value or worth of an idea is counter to the interests of the majority, the idea has to be sequestered into muddy waters. Secrecy! Intimidation! Denial! This post is about strategies that government and industry uses to limit...
Phil Kaufman/Michael Sauers September 16, 2025 Where to begin? This is a reasonable question when you're talking about Phil Kaufman. He is a man of enormous courage, intellect and grit. For several decades he spoke truth to power and to the citizens of the Greater...
Michael Sauers August 2, 2025 The Greater Hazleton Area is not the only "sacrifice area". There are hundreds of them spread across the U.S.A. Above and below ground coal mining with all of its negative consequences (too numerous to list, do some research) started the...
Michael Sauers July 3, 2025 It is a given that an investment in equitable education is by far the best economic development tool. Think-tanks, corporations, universities and governments proclaim this through countless studies. It is the foundation and surpasses...
Gerard Hoefling, Co-founder of Greenfire Coalition July 4, 2025 This Fourth of July, I invite everyone who can read this to join me in reaffirming faith in our shared United States of America and to our sacred heritage bestowed by the signers of the Declaration of...
Michael Sauers June 24, 2025 Iran and the United States have a history. Like all histories it is complicated and subject to interpretations. However, there is much solid evidence from which we can draw understandings and conclusions. Many politicians, such as, Senator...
Michael Sauers May 15, 2025 There is a serious lack of teachers at all levels. The pay and working conditions are awful. The majority of teachers scrape by most of their careers. Towards the end (25 to 35 years) there is ray of sunshine called a pension. Paired with...
Michael Sauers May 7, 2025 Trump has committed 22 impeachable offenses. These should be pursued ASAP. Article1 Stripping a certain category of children born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof of their birthright citizenships Article 2 Issued...
Michael Sauers May 5, 2025 I'm 75. That makes me part of a generation that once stood, at least in my mind, for changing the world. Not all but many of us pursued justice. Our music, clothes, swagger, opposition to Vietnam, quest for education and defiance of the...
Michael Sauers March 18, 2025 The following is a message sent to Arron Chapin at PSEA from Michael Sauers My first year of teaching was 1972-3. I'm now retired. Over the course of my life, I have had successful careers in education, business, and community organizing....
Michael Sauers February 28, 2025 Recently I posted on the cruelties imposed on egg laying hens and male chicks. Today I want to talk about what happens to ducks and geese. That's right, Donald, Daffy, Goosey Loosey, Uncle Waldo and millions of ordinary ducks and geese...
Michael Sauers February 25, 2025 By virtue of their wealth, a small group of people have always exercised a disproportionate amount of power. They have used this power to create systems (government, education, legal, military, etc.) that enhance their power, position...