The Village Voice's Tom Robbins writes:
By every measure, we are in for a long, hard winter, one that has
already turned punishingly cold on the streets, in City Hall, and in
Albany. It is colder yet for thousands suddenly out of work, sucked
under by Wall Street's grasping greed. Others, who never knew the
security of a decent, steady job even before this savage downturn, face
the severing of government lifelines as politicians scramble to slice
their budgets, starting from the bottom up.
All of which is good reason to take a moment to give thanks to those
in the city's trenches who have quietly gone about the tough, everyday
work of remedying inequality, as well as those who have stood tall
against abuses of power.
