The Whistleblower: For the past several days, many of us have been trying to wrap our minds around the news of alleged forced hysterectomies of women detained not in Nazi Germany, but in the United States of America; not between 1933 and 1945, but in the year two-thousand and twenty. These ...
My heart goes out to anyone actually named Karen. As of late, the name has taken on new meaning with COVID-19 and is gaslighted by the president’s decision to not wear a mask. (“They’re uncomfortable,” “I look silly,” and “I’ll get Cheetos dust on them,” are three possible ...
I’ll open with a potentially dangerous admission. ... I voted for George W. Bush. Twice. I also voted for Barack Obama twice. In both cases, my thinking was they were the right men for their times. Both of these decent, moral, inclusive men were forced to process disasters not of their own ...
It is safe to say that the upcoming general election will be unlike any before. Town and city clerks and moderators are expecting record numbers of absentee ballots as we continue to develop best practices for voting safely in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation is at a crossroads as ...
With deference to the late Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neil, who was the originator of the first half of this column’s headline. Watching the slew of political ads on TV now returns me to my youth when an election day was nothing more than time off from school. The schools were used as polling ...
Aside from a few snow days now and then, or the very rare threat of a hurricane, extended school closings were all but unheard of across the nation - until now. “Closings” may not be quite accurate, as most teachers and students are still in class, but in most cases just not inside the ...
