by Jeff Maisey | Jan 24, 2015 | News & Views, Newswanger
By Philip Newswanger The war on poverty is a battlefield strewn with corpses. Liberals, progressives and conservatives have tackled the moral, ethical, economic and social consequences of poverty and have died a metaphorical death because of their insane yet...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Newswanger
By Phillip Newswanger Something is brewing on the other side of the tracks in Norfolk – and it’s not just beer. City officials have hatched a plan to transform an area of Norfolk marked by empty industrial buildings, barbed wire and railroad tracks. Railroad...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Newswanger
By Philip Newswanger It’s too late for Lawrence Faine, 72. It’s too late for David Latham, 35. Both men suffered from schizophrenia. Both men are dead, The die is cast. No amount of press conferences, mea culpas and admonishments by Norfolk’s elected officials – bad...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Newswanger
By Phillip Newswanger The dichotomy between the number of available of jobs and the 16 percent poverty rate in Norfolk staggers the imagination. In Norfolk, in April, there were 6,341 unemployed and yet there were 12,297 job openings, according to the Virginia...
