Lainey Shany
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Lainey Shany works in the health care industry. She is a foster parent, an experience she has found both startling yet rewarding. She also spends time doing citizen reporting and Darfur activism.

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Senator Kennedy: Healing our Church and Uniting our People

Posted August 30, 2009 | 12:18:15 (EST)

I watched the service for Senator Kennedy on TV. What struck me most -- besides his son Teddy's eulogy -- was the idea that all of our leadership sat in an un-air conditioned church. Yes, they had fans, but their sitting in this church, knowing that Ted Kennedy sat...

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A Case in Race: A Case in Foster Care

Posted July 30, 2009 | 13:41:04 (EST)

Not one news program today went by without a story about race: Glenn Beck calls our
President a racist, the professor and the police officer await a beer to find resolution, and an email surfaces disparaging Professor Gates. But hey, let's find the teachable moment.

As...

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Troy Davis, A Man Without a Voice, Speaks for Too Many

Posted July 28, 2009 | 18:01:36 (EST)

There is an entire group of citizens in the United States who are largely ignored by liberals and conservatives alike. They are the people on Death Row whose guilt contains "reasonable doubt." For better or for worse, Mr. Troy Anthony Davis is their poster child.

Mr. Davis' case is...

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