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Suffolk University School Alumni Magazine, Spring 2022
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Oral History Interview of Rudy Kass, Wendy Ballinger, and Janet Putnam (SOH-041, audio recording and transcript)
Get PDFIn this interview, longtime Ford Hall Forum members Rudy Kass, Wendy Ballinger, and Janet Putnam reflect on the history of the Forum and how it has changed over the years. They discuss notable past speakers, especially activist Margaret Sanger and politician David Duke. The interviewees describe the challenges and rewards of planning and moderating discussions as well as the production of Ford Hall Forum\u27s radio series, The New American Gazette. The interview ends with their thoughts on the future of the Ford Hall Forum.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1055/thumbnail.jp
Dislocating the Separation of Powers State ‘Thumb’ On The Biden Sustainability Initiatives & Law
Get PDFPresident Biden enacted his unprecedented large Infrastructure law to make what President Biden calls a “once-in-a-generation investment” to modernize U.S. infrastructure by rapidly deploying sustainable renewable power generation technology. As the primary U.S. federal law to address climate change before the world exceeds a ‘tipping point’ of uncontrolled warming, this Infrastructure law must not be impaired or frustrated by any other government actions. However, inferior levels of local government now are interceding, placing their legal ‘thumbs’ on and legally blocking implementation of Biden Administration sustainable Infrastructure. This article analyzes the legal conflicts posed by hundreds of state and local governments now blocking and legally de-railing this key legal initiative, including:/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• 121 local policies restricting new sustainable wind and solar projects in 31 U.S. states/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• More than 300 recent local decisions from California to Vermont blocking wind projects, through Constitutionally reserved local land-use powers protected by the Supreme Court/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• Pursuant to court-protected powers, States blocking new transmission lines necessary to move renewable electricity to consumers in California, New York, Massachusetts, etc./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe 21st century’s new renewable wind and solar power technologies require a significantly greater amount of land to generate a kilowatt-hour of electric power than do traditional more dense fossil fuels – as much as 1000% more land. Inferior levels of government control land and its use under Constitutional allocation of powers, particularly regarding electric power infrastructure. This legal reality now creates two key sustainability bottlenecks:/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• Already, hundreds of cities are using their land-use power to enact new ‘aesthetic’ zoning laws to ‘zone-out’ and prohibit the siting of new renewable energy technologies./= / \u3e/= / \u3e• A significant number of states already exercise their exclusive authority to block the siting of any electric transmission lines to deliver new renewable power in the United States/= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe Supreme Court heard and made a decision in its 2022 term that constricts federal Executive Branch power over climate change measures. This now-unfolding separation of powers conflict created by inferior-level local government action to veto federal policy is embedded in the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution and protected by the courts -- It cannot be changed by actions of Congress or the Executive branch. After analyzing all of these moving legal pieces, this article positively identifies a legal ‘work-around’ -- carving out a sustainable legal path forward requiring no new legislation to circumvent and dislocate the restrictive local ‘thumb’ retarding national sustainable infrastructure
Circuit Split on Constitutionality of Public Carry Statutes: Why the Supreme Court Should Hold That States and Municipalities Know Best
Get PDFConstitutional Law—Dangers of the Substantive Due Process State-Created Danger Exception— Irish v. Fowler, 979 F.3d 65 (1st Cir. 2020)
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The Great Resignation or the Great Joy in Higher Education: Emerging Lessons from the Pandemic
Get PDFThe Great Resignation, the Great Attrition, the Great Disengagement, and the Big Quit are a few of the names for the phenomenon occurring throughout different industries, including higher education.1 Higher education is not immune from this great exodus and is at a turning point as retention of faculty, administrators, and staff is more important than ever.2 What’s joy got to do with it?3 Can it drive those who work in higher education to stay, leave, or return?4 Money is not enough by itself to retain workers.5 Over the last two years, higher education, like other industries, is facing a fundamental shift in how people view their work, their employer, and their life.6 Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Great Joy: to (re)discover joy in your work; reevaluate what you want from work, be open minded, and possibly reinvent how you work, where you work, who you work with, and what you work on. This article explores the challenges higher education faces as the pandemic continues to alter attitudes on work. It then offers some strategies to (re)discover joy in work. Finally, it discusses ways to maximize joy in work
