by Jerome Paige | Jun 7, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Featured, Public Policy Adventures
Given the events since the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, I reviewed a set of ideas that were in my files. I had summarized my thinking with hopes to develop the analysis I had outlined. I can’t find a date for these notes, but I most likely made them in the...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 7, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Public Policy Adventures
On September 11, 2018, I provided comments to attendees at the HumanitiesDC showcase of the projects that had examined Washington DC in 1968. Based on my work with the DC Living Heritage Network, I suggested a “Gentrification Narratives Framework” to help us...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, Public Policy Adventures
A couple of days after May 24, 2020, the “breaking news” was a white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park in New York City. In the video that the black birdwatcher took showed a hysterical white woman fabricating a story about being...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Public Policy Adventures
To Gain Statehood, must DC wait until it’s predominately white? People earnestly and frequently ask me this question, as we watch the percentage of the black population in the city dip below 50%. My answer: Maybe. Maybe not. I equivocate because I believe that...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Forensic Economics Investigations, Public Policy Adventures
Attorneys and their clients need to understand the implications of assessing the potential economic damages in a case when an “individual” becomes a “business” since the damages calculation shifts from estimating lost “wages” to lost “net profit.” For the W2...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Forensic Economics Investigations, Public Policy Adventures
California Statue, SB-41, which became effective January 2020, prohibits “the estimation, measure, or calculation of past, present, or future damages for lost earnings or impaired earnings capacity from a personal injury or wrongful death from being reduced based or...
