politics

The two-sided coin called Progress

  March 31, 2016
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If you're a city boy like me, freeways are pretty normal -- they're kind of just there, people use them every day, and you don't often think of them as [...]

Where have all the moderates gone?

  March 26, 2016
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It's 2016 and we're in the midst of a very chippy presidential campaign season, especially on the Republican side. Much has been written in other places about [...]

Lift Every Voice and Sing

  November 5, 2008
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It's been an interesting year, hasn't it? And here, near the end, we get a payoff that has been almost two years in the making -- the end of an historic [...]

It’s been an interesting week…

  August 28, 2008
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Can't say that I've watched the whole of the Democratic National Convention, but I've probably seen more of it than I have in most years. Missed the old [...]

I’m staffing a meeting today…

  June 8, 2007
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... which likely means more inane posts than usual. Greetings from "Hotel XYZ" in Washington, DC (names of locations removed to protect the innocent), where [...]