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2021: My year in review

January was the most chaotic month of the year.Six days into the new year, we came as close to a violent overthrow of the U.S government as has happened since the Civil War.January 6th was to have been the day when the newly elected president was given the official affirmation of his victory at ...

Values and the morals of democracy

A few weeks after Christmas late in the 1930s, the president of the United States addressed himself to the problems attendant to “maintaining the morals of democracy.”It was not the first, and it wouldn’t be the last time, that Franklin Roosevelt spoke of civic virtue. He pretty regularly ...

Mark Meadows tests positive – for stupid

Mark Meadows was Donald TrumpĢƵ fourth chief of staff.His job?While Trump ran his mouth, Meadows ran the White House.He now has the unenviable task of running through a legal minefield, while trying to avoid getting out of the good graces of his former boss.So far, heĢƵ losing on both ...

Huge role ahead for local officials

ItĢƵ been reported that both Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are gearing up to hire a “significant number of people” in the coming weeks and months.The new hires, stemming from the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation passed by ...

ItĢƵ a Merry, Happy, Christmas, folks!

Ah, ‘tis the season to be jolly, but to also be online searching for the best deals.Online shopping could account for as much as $200 billion in U.S. sales this holiday season.Heck! When I was a kid, the only online my parents knew, was standing "online" to pick up their layaways at the local ...

Dems may be too late with projects

In politics, timing is everything. Democrats have a timing problem.At issue is the rollout of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program passed by bipartisan votes in Congress, but whose journey through the congressional meat grinder was largely engineered by Democrats, including the Biden White ...