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…
Half Past the Month
A FRIEND pulled out an apt George Orwell quote for the week’s events: ‘We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” Yes, Oprah’s interview with the Duchess came to mind but we were challenged to apply it to local public policy, particularly economic development and race relations. Herding a Read the full article…
Keating: The Political Parties
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. “I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order,” said Lyndon B. Johnson Not everyone identifies as closely with a political party as did President Johnson. We experience conflict between positions taken by parties, be it either Democrat or Republican. In fact, we Read the full article…
Franke: They’ve Come for Dr. Seuss
by Mark Franke“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” This iconic line from the movie “Network” has been repeated so often that it no longer has any effect. However, I can positively assert that this is the first time I’ve used it. In fact I had to do a Google Read the full article…
