“Rod Stewart Hair”
“I like your hair!” a woman at the party said.
Opinions
Q: What’s your beef with the Biden administration beefing up the IRS?
A: President Biden will fatten up the IRS to the tune of $80 billion thanks to the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that squeaked through Congress on a party-line vote. The administration plans to double the size of the IRS...
Across the country, thousands of farmers grow small grains such as wheat, oats, barley, and rye. Some choose to do so for conservation benefits, while others aim to diversify their income streams, to take advantage of local markets, or meet the requirements of organic certification.
But, as with...
“Piccolina”
I was walking down an old street in an old part of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Brightly colored wooden doors lined the streets. There was no indication from the outside what might be within. It could be a courtyard filled with flowers and a fountain, or a small business, or...
As much as it pains me to discuss the goings on surrounding this individual now that they no longer have the power to influence the lives of every U.S. citizen, I would be remiss—as a journalist—to ignore it.
The response of certain groups to the FBI raid that took place at Mar-A-Lago has been to...
It seems hard to believe the new school year is just around the corner. Teachers are heading back to get their classrooms ready and parents are gathering the school supplies their kids need to start the year.
Over the last two years, educators have been working overtime under tough circumstances...
According to the most recent data from Pew Research Center, National Election Studies, Gallup, ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times and CNN Polls, only 21 percent of Americans say they trust the government in Washington, DC to do what is right. The headline from Dante Chinni’s June 10 NBC News...
“Two Degrees”
They call the impossibly complicated screen I am looking at a “dashboard,” which I do not find reassuring at all. It would be nice not to associate my ignorance of technology with crashing some out-of-control machine into a ravine, although, as I think about it, that is very much how...
Communities in every corner of the country now struggle with a lack of affordable homes, an ailment long associated with fast-growing urban areas.
A lack of affordable housing hamstrings rural towns’ abilities to attract workers and slows business growth. Quality housing is also linked to health...
The lack of internal scrutiny when it comes to a myriad of the United States’ problems is an ongoing issue. Media subverts attention to more trivial happenings—celebrity gossip, feel-good snippets, or pointing the mirror to reflect the problems in other parts of the world, rather than our own.
It...
Q: What’s wrong with the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act?”
A: The White House and Democrat-led Majority in Congress are taking yet another bite at the tax-and-spend apple. Despite 41-year high inflation and rising cost of living, the big spenders in Washington can’t keep themselves from...
