The world watched with horror as Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Now the world is wondering if Vladimir Putin will follow the same pattern in eastern Ukraine.
I recently had the oil changed in my wife’s 2004 Toyota Tacoma at a local repair shop and was told by the mechanic that the fuel filter and spark plugs were badly in need of replacement.
Most of the time we act on automatic pilot. We have established set routines about what we do from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed.
When taxes are shifted from public service to benefiting the few favored companies who can buy political influence or hold whole states hostage to their threats like Boeing recently did with its 777X assembly line, that is the problem.
The definition of a plutocrat is “a person who derives power from wealth.” Warren Buffet fits in that category.
Which is more important, saving the environment or creating new industries and jobs? This issue was one of the main themes recently in PBS’s six-hour presentation on the National Parks and how they came to be.
With the rise of terrorist attacks, civilians became the targets rather than collateral damage.
Which is the best avenue for a strong economy? Republicans want to free themselves of government regulations and taxation. Democrats want to protect the poor and middle class with a safety net. This is the battle we are seeing in the nation’s Capitol right now.
Do you know the type of city government you have in your city? Is it council-manager, or mayor-council? Never heard of these differences? These governmental forms are important because each operates differently.
Same-sex marriage. This is the most recent, commonly used hot button that is rallying the troops on either side of the political spectrum. The topic raises people’s blood pressure, cause the veins in their necks to pop out and reddens their faces.
It was October 1929 and the stock market had crashed.
