Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he loves. And he’s not alone. Many recent columns and stories attest to the concern that many fans are having with the brutal residual effects of the game which leaves so many players with brain damage in addition …
During the 2016 campaign and in the early days of his presidency, President Donald Trump made ‘defeating radical Islamic terrorism’ a key part of his counterterrorism strategy. He also said that he would step up efforts to blunt other terrorist groups. At the same time, he vowed to be successful without deploying large numbers of …
In America, we’ve experienced four decades of progress against preventable deaths. We’ve cut death rates for motor vehicle accidents, homicides and smoking. That was before the opioid epidemic, which has driven the national death rate from overdoses to 9.3 per 100,000 in 2015, up from 0.4 in 1975. What once was rarely seen is now …
Did you ever look around your cities and towns and wonder why so many folks look alike? In cities, often we see a preponderance of people of color and in suburbs and rural communities just the opposite. An accident, you wonder? Just the way things happened…birds of a feather? Not quite. In fact, finally, thanks …
https://www.conventionofstates.com/ This effort is described as a project of citizens for self governance. The rallying cry of those who want to use Article V of The Constitution as a tool to amend it is that the federal government has grown to big, too unwieldy and overly intrusive in our lives. This they say is …
Was the period of corporate loyalty to workers simply an aberration? In the modern era, generous salaries and benefits packages were most commonly doled out from the mid-1940’s into the early 1980’s. Through the prism of four corporate behemoths, Rick Wartzman, director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute, …
https://www.jimmywebb.com/ One of the joys of my broadcast career has been the opportunity to interview Jimmy Webb on more than one occasion. He is known for his power ballads which tells stories about people and places that are unforgettable. And for his remarkable collaboration with the late Glen Campbell, having written for him, ‘By the …
https://aztectwostep.com/ Rex Fowler, along with his duo mate, Neal Shulman, have spent a lifetime making music together as the folk/rock duo, Aztec Two-Step. After taking their name from a poem by beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, they have written love song and songs of conscience. Rex Fowler reflects on the protest songs that have inspired him …
https://www.pavlinaosta.com/ They don’t buy napkins. They don’t play golf. They aren’t buying cars or homes. And they’re not even eating at Buffalo Wild Wings. So, how will this generation, which is like no other before it, continue to leave its imprint on our culture and business climate? Pavlina Jaine Osta is a millennial pop culture …
https://congressionaldish.com/ For generations the mainland U.S. has heaped insults and injury upon the people of Puerto Rico. It’s a history that few understand but has stripped the island of its resources and economic prosperity, while leaving its political status in question. Jen Briney, creator of the ‘Congressional Dish’ podcast, took at trip there recently to …