From the Salary Commission’s initial meeting until our final one, every effort was made to follow city of Bainbridge Island and Open Public Meetings Act… Continue reading
It’s hard these days to keep track of all the decrepitude in public life, so forgive me if I highlight some new sleaze that has… Continue reading
It’s normal these days to applaud the return to normality. But I’m going to miss some of the abnormal stuff we’ve been doing during the… Continue reading
My recent trip to Florida was glorious for one simple reason: it was normal. You see, I had been hungering for a friendly social gathering… Continue reading
With tthe conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, America once again finds itself at an inflection point in its politics. We’ve been here… Continue reading
Republican pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting Trump voters to better understand why they won’t take the simple step of protecting themselves… Continue reading
As graduation looms, my son Gideon has been named both salutatorian and Wittiest Boy of the Cornersville (TN) High School Class of 2021. (I myself… Continue reading
When the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Ill., many of the residents were horrified. A large percentage were Jewish, and some had been interned… Continue reading
Disregard the policy, the law school lecture language, the obfuscation and don’t be misled by the bureaucratic psychobabble. President Joe Biden’s executive order creation of… Continue reading
With the eyes of the nation on Minnesota with the twin dramas of the ongoing criminal trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin and the… Continue reading
Tree huggers, are you contemplating a Zoom meeting with Mr. Elm instead? Yes, this is dedicated to the millions of you who share my susceptibility… Continue reading
By Rich Manieri I knew it. I get the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and three days later, “J&J vaccine paused due to blood clots.”… Continue reading
I don’t want to malign anyone’s religious faith. I really don’t. But it’s a tad disturbing that 45 percent of the nation’s 41 million white… Continue reading
You can’t escape politics anywhere now - not even in America’s once great pastime, baseball. A “pastime,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “something that… Continue reading
A year after the first COVID-19 shutdown, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act - the $1.9 trillion coronavirus legislation that truly has little… Continue reading
Did I ever tell you about my late Uncle Vernon and the time his slanderous lies about a respected business got unceremoniously debunked? In the… Continue reading
As parents of three teenage daughters, my wife and I expend a lot of our leisure time managing other people’s laundry. Because our children are… Continue reading
Under the guise of the “This is not who we are. America is better than this” language spoken by President Biden, no accommodation is too… Continue reading
Here’s a quiz for the Republican politicians among you. Check as many as apply. Do you support: - Repairing and rebuilding America’s deteriorating network of… Continue reading
I am so glad the whole white supremacy and gun nut narrative is over, so we can get back to the one about voter suppression.… Continue reading
