Year: 2021
I Read the Comments. Yikes.
They say not to read the comments. Well, I read the comments. And a letter to the editor. And yikes – in a disappointing way. I wrote an opinion column in the Star Tribune that made a simple argument, albeit
Read MoreFor Social Justice, Team USA’s Coach Should Give Up One of Her Jobs
My latest opinion column, this time in the Star Tribune, asks whether a woman who has championed giving opportunities to women of color should keep two high-profile jobs instead of giving one to a woman of color. Or something.
Read MoreIn Coaching, ‘Diversity’ Is a Trick Play
My latest opinion column in the Duluth News Tribune asks why, if it’s so important to hire black coaches who resemble their players, we also celebrate hiring white women to coach in the NBA. From the article: “Why the confusion
Read MoreDoes Home-Ice Advantage Melt without Fans?
My latest data-driven article at College Hockey News asks whether fans actually contribute to home-ice advantage in college hockey. (A season of empty arenas has served as an unintentional experiment — one we’ll hopefully never repeat.) P.
Read MoreTeachers of Color: When More Is Never Enough
As nice as it sounds to spend millions of dollars to recruit more teachers of color, some pesky demographics and arithmetic get in the way. My latest in the Duluth News Tribune. P. A. Jensen (@RuralityChecker) lives in
Read MoreCigarettes on Wheels
She clutched two things with one arm. A Styrofoam coffee cup, already half-empty, apparently, was tucked between her elbow and her black jacket, its black lid somehow holding on for dear life, surviving the squeeze. “Holiday,” it smushedly said. The
Read MoreA Minimum-Median-Maximum Wage, or Something
A “minimum” wage is hard to define across a country as diverse as ours. A wage that’s truly “minimum” in South Dakota would be sub-minimal in California; a “minimum” wage on the coasts would approach the median in Mississippi. But
Read MoreIs affordable housing still a ‘human right’ in an unaffordable place?
My latest opinion column in the Duluth News Tribune raises the point that spending millions on “affordable housing” in unaffordable places is a slap in many rural Americans’ faces. Beware cheesy references to Aesop’s fable about the Country Mouse.
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