Compassion for middle class will be tested with tax bill
Tax cuts are the political equivalent of truth serum.A typical politician can often get away with spinning wildly about economic growth, the budget deficit...
Be careful when hiring contractors
As the autumn leaves fill up your gutters, you might be thinking of hiring someone to help you with outdoor work. In the fall,...
The glass house of the NFL
The National Football League is a glass house that was cracking well before Donald Trump’s criticism of players who refuse to stand during the...
Puerto Rico isn’t Texas or Florida
It seems to me that in all the ruckus about how the federal government has (or has not) been responding to the damage done...
Don’t mess with the disability community
In its efforts to drastically cut Medicaid, Congress crossed an uncommonly tough group of people.The GOP twice failed to pass health care legislation this...
GOP base is beyond Trump’s control
The conservative movement is caught in a Catch-22 of its own making. In the war against “the establishment” we have made being an outsider...
Leaf it to mother nature
Now comes my favorite time of year. When fields morph into all shades of brown, filled with burrs and other stuff that stick to...
Math, history and tax reform
In school, I liked math the least and history the most. Both can be useful in the coming debate over President Trump’s proposed tax...
General Greene part II
I continue the story of the illustrious General for whom our county is named.After getting the Post at West Point in good order, he...
1941 Beavers baseball team
Baseball season is coming to an end. The bats and mitts may have been replaced with footballs, and soon with the larger, rounded basketball.Baseball...
