by Alison Bass | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
As you may have heard, Kroger, which is already the largest grocery chain in the country, wants to merge with Albertsons, creating a food behemoth that will almost certainly reduce competition and drive up food prices for anyone who shops at Kroger, Ralph’s,...
by Alison Bass | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the reasons I love living in Washington, D.C. is because it reminds me of home, or more precisely, the community that I grew up in. Bryn Gweled was (and still is) an intentional community founded by Quakers with the twin ideals of diversity and sustainability....
by Alison Bass | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Within weeks of moving to Washington, D.C., I received not one but two notices of speeding violations in the mail. I was flummoxed, having never been pulled over speeding in the city. It turns out that both speeding violations were on the same stretch of road —...
by Alison Bass | Nov 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few days ago, I drove back to Morgantown, West Virginia to visit friends and family and pick up a lamp that had been left behind when I moved in August to Washington, D.C. It felt good to be back for a visit — almost as if I had never left, like slipping on a...
by Alison Bass | Nov 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
In her new book, The View from Third Street, long-time journalist Anita Harris writes about the trial in 1972 of the Harrisburg Eight, a group of anti-Vietnam war activists including the priest Philip Berrigan who stood accused of planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger...
