Greenfire Coalition Writer's Forum
Overdue Thank You!
Michael Sauers January 26, 2026 Kudos to Public Interest Law Center, Education Law Center and O'Melveney & Meyers, LLP for initiating, pursuing and succeeding with a landmark decision regarding public education funding in Pennsylvania. February 7, 2023 was...
Tax Avoidance Hurts Public Education
Michael Sauers January 9, 2025 Call it tax avoidance. Call it loopholes. Call it corporate welfare. Call it what you like but the essence is that our tax money is being diverted from the general revenue fund to tax avoidance schemes that benefit corporations and...
Beware the Distractions-Go Vegan
Michael Sauers January 5, 2026 About 70 years ago the leading culprit of lung cancer was identified as tobacco. Big tobacco did everything to crush antismoking advocates including using doctors in cigarette advertisements. However, tobacco's culpability was undeniable...
New Year’s Eve in Wellsboro, PA
Michael Sauers December 30, 2025 Once again, we are going to spend New Year's Eve in Wellsboro, PA. Nestled just west of the Endless Mountains Region and adjacent to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, Wellsboro serves as the county seat of Tioga County. Settled in...
Around Us, On Us and In Us-Fascinating!
Michael Sauers December 29, 2025 Our arrogance is only surpassed by our stupidity. So, to begin, let me recommend a few references for help. The first is The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla. Follow this with a skim through Aardvarks to Zebras by...
Activist Groups School Shapiro
Michael Sauers December 16, 2025 Last week a truly creative and organic event took place at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. Seventy statewide environmental justice, community development, and economic development organizations plus over two thousand...
Christmas, Our Hopes and Dreams!
Michael Sauers December 8, 2025 I love to celebrate Christmas, both religious and secular. In fact I broaden the celebration to the time between Thanksgiving and New Years. I have so much to be thankful and grateful for even as I fend off the blatant commercialization...
Kelayres Massacre-More Good Old Days
Michael Sauers Decamber 5, 2025 Fourth and Center Streets in Kelayres, PA is not where you would expect a drama like the Kelayres Massacre to occur but it did. On November 5, 1934, 5 people were gunned down and approximately 2 dozen others were wounded. It was...
Taking Control!
Michael Sauers November 24, 2025 The federal government has numerous powers granted by the Constitution. Powers such as create, levy and collect taxes, create and regulate money, regulate interstate commerce and provide for the defense of the United States among...
Controlling Our Futures!
Michael Sauers October 26, 2025 The existential threat of AI is extinction. This is a rising sentiment that is pushing other concerns such as fake news, polarization, threats to democracy, deep fake harassment, scams, bias, discrimination, job loss, economic...