Backgrounder: My Years in Washington
by Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. I was a professor of economics at three colleges over a period of 47 years. For two and one-half of those 47 years I was on leave with a non-teaching job I’ve always described as a great job to have had. So what was the job? I was an international Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Gender and Wages
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. What is a fair wage? Should the coach of the men’s basketball team receive more pay than the coach of the college’s women’s basketball team? Should a 63-year-old, male, principal oboist and a 44-year-old, female, principal flautist receive the same pay from the Boston Symphony Orchestra? What could be more fair Read the full article…
Morris: Counting our 2019 Blessings
by Leo Morris Surely, I don’t have to remind you of all the bad news in the world. Even if you’re not the type to dwell upon the negative, there has been no escape from the endless litany of human misery and failure that has been dished out in the past few weeks. Year-in-review and Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The Unspoken of Abatements
by David Penticuff A councilman took our newspaper to task this week for criticizing the council on its apparent lack of curiosity regarding the granting of property-tax abatements. It turns out we were wrong in that regard. Council members have a lot of information about the tax abatements they vote to grant. They just don’t Read the full article…
Morris: On Becoming Elderly — Suddenly
by Leo Morris We live inside a buffered area – sort of a sociological DMZ – where the way others see us and the way we see ourselves collide and mutate into a whirling kaleidoscope of perception. Sometimes we fret about one or the other. What a gift, the poet Robert Burns said, it would Read the full article…
Outstater: Stay Strong, Scouts
by Craig Ladwig “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.” — The Boy Scout Oath Talk that the Boy Scouts of America Read the full article…
