The Outstater
“Expectations were created that with the government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so.” — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador THE MAYOR OF MY CITY, a Biden Read the full article…
Franke: The Importance of a Tradition
by Mark Franke “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” Yogi Berra was, to my way of thinking, one of the two most significant philosophers of the 20th century. He had a simple, direct way of looking at life and summing up its highest order principles in his own Read the full article…
Morris: Police Reform
by Leo Morris You probably know what you think about murder, rape, arson and all sorts of other abhorrent crimes. But how do you feel about jaywalking and littering? It’s not as trivial a question as it might seem. Laws against jaywalking save lives. It is true that most car-pedestrian collisions happen at intersections, but Read the full article…
The Outstater
EVERYONE IS EXCITED. Your city is getting a new mixed-use hotel, dining and entertainment district where once only dilapidated buildings stood. Adjacent will be a new baseball park and maybe down the road a basketball arena or soccer stadium and luxury condominiums. The mayor put together a public-private partnership with a big-time out-of-state developer. There will be plenty of Read the full article…
Franke: Whose Children Are They?
by Mark Franke The pandemic has disrupted much of our daily lives, sometimes out of necessity or too often due to governmental overreach. Be that as it may, COVID has certainly opened fault lines in our society that were already there but hidden. One such fault line is at the education of our children. There Read the full article…
Morris: Confessions of a ‘Republican’
by Leo Morris One day a colleague, whose intellect I had admired up to that point, confessed that she had some conservative instincts when it came to politics. “But I just can’t go there, considering the people that would associate me with,” she said, referring to some of the rogues in the Republican Party who Read the full article…
