Franke: The Continuing Service of Veterans
by Mark Franke It is heartwarming to hear the number of people, children included, who will go up to an elderly person wearing a military cap of some kind and say, “Thank you for your service.” I hear it myself when I am wearing something displaying the Sons of the American Legion logo. When that Read the full article…
The Outstater
Democracy Unclothed THE 911 CALL from the home of Paul and Nancy Pelosi got me thinking — no, not in the way you might imagine. It has to do with journalistic method. My first breaking news story was a citywide, Keystone Cops-style chase involving a dozen suspects and victims in an early morning robbery and kidnapping Read the full article…
Morris: Downtown — A City’s Quandary
by Leo Morris Should we give up on “downtown” as a concept whose time has come and gone, admit that trying to keep it on life support is a futile effort? I don’t know the answer to that question. Perhaps there isn’t one, at least one that is knowable before a lot of other people Read the full article…
The Outstater
WHY IS A NICE FELLOW like Mike Pence so worked up over a former Soviet Republic 5,000 air miles away? Let’s start with the etymology. In the 1940s, the editor of the Tulsa Tribune, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, popularized for Americans “Afghanistanism,” a colloquialism originating in the British Parliament meaning concentrating on problems in distant parts while ignoring Read the full article…
Franke: The Importance of Faith-Based Hospitals
by Mark Franke If a group of people get together for the purpose of providing a needed social service for their fellow citizens, is this a good thing? Even if they are religious folk undertaking this work as an outward expression of their inward faith? Of course this is a good thing, isn’t it? The Read the full article…
Morris: Déjà Vu or a Full Brain?
by Leo Morris Most of you have undoubtedly experienced déjà vu, that eerie sense that something you have never encountered before is nonetheless somehow familiar. Most of you have undoubtedly experienced déjà vu, that eerie sense that something you have never encountered before is nonetheless somehow familiar. My apologies. I know that was just a cheap joke, Read the full article…
