January 6th has become a day that will live in infamy, but thanks to the man who uttered those words about the first such occasion, there's another, better reason to remember and act on it...

04 January, 2023

Merriam-Webster chose "gaslighting" as theirs, but to us, this was the year when our country finally started cooking with gas again, and "democracy" had to be the word for that...

13 December, 2022

All across America, Trump-backed candidates did something last month he's never been able to do himself--give a concession speech. And the other concessions generated in his name are getting stale...

05 December, 2022

As the first third week in November approaches in relative peace and hope, we express our thanks to the many Americans of many kinds who, in many ways, made it so...

18 November, 2022

The campaigns of individual candidates often have theme songs; this year's midterms seem to have a theme *album* and *film,* Talking Heads 1984 live opus, "Stop Making Sense"...

01 November, 2022

Public education has long been one of the pillars upon which democracy has been built. Today, it's under siege, and like elementary math, the solutions are both simple and hard...

15 October, 2022

Our flag and Constitution are both tapestries in support of our more perfect union. Our founding documentis increasingly multi- hued, but is our flag--and our democracy--unfurling or unraveling?...

05 October, 2022

The hard times ahead will require and provide a plethora of opportunities for small business and entrepreneurs to stand up, step out, lean in, deal and deliver for the home team...

14 September, 2022

It's a highly infectious disease of the economy in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There's no vaccine, no known cure, but there could be new treatments derived from an old remedy...

30 August, 2022
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