Gambling has always preyed on people who want to use it to solve their financial woes. Sports betting apps and prediction markets join the coalition of evil tech corporations that use our phones to turbo-charge that impulse for a profit. We need a radical empathy for people who are hurt by gambling addiction, which I understand is in short supply on this issue.

Across the country there are stories about “school lunch debt,” a heinous sentence that should give every person a great deal of shame. Children denied lunch because of a $9 debt. There is a wealth of mental health stress that we inflict on children in the name of lunch “fiscal responsibility”.

Public financing is complicated, in part because some people would rather not have any public financing at all. If it were as simple as Milwaukee collecting tax revenue then spending that  revenue on public infrastructure, the Milwaukee Public School (MPS) district might not be in the godawful mess it’s in –unfortunately, the reality is complicated and stupid, just like most bureaucracies.

This edition:

Democrats Do Defend Public Education

Democrats Don't Commit Fraud to Privatize Schools