Anyone who attended high school probably remembers their world history teacher talking about countries that militarized their law enforcement to make what is referred to as a police state. Examples taught should have included SS members of Nazi Germany (1925-1945), the secret police — NKVD ...
Ginnie and I support the arts, like the sky supports lightning, or the earth life. We have four main local artists we collect, and many of lesser quantity, not talent. We only have so much space on our cathedral walls. Whenever we go to an art reception, which is often, Ginnie’s wags her ...
Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was executed by lethal injection on July 15 for killing two people in 1993. Gov. Ron DeSantis also ...
Can you hear the canary in the economy’s coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans ...
If it seems like the local news you read and watch doesn’t cover the breadth of issues, and doesn’t cover them as well as they used to, you’re not imagining it. A new study details a shocking decline in the number of journalists covering local news today, compared to 20 years ago. In ...
Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans. The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay ...