In a famous 1895 speech, Booker T. Washington castigated white industrialists for favoring European immigrants over black laborers in their new factories. “Cast down your bucket where you are… among the eight millions of Negroes” to find workers, he declared. The expression came from Moby Dick, wherein Melville related the tale of a distressed ship […]

Vote Berry I am looking forward to voting to reelect Seth Berry as our state representative for District 55. Seth is a dedicated public servant and a strong advocate for his constituents. He understands how the legislature works, and he uses that experience to get things done. I’ve been proud to have him representing me […]

The New York Times’ exclusive on President Donald Trump’s taxes contains a lot of startling new findings. A few noteworthy examples: He paid only US$750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 – and nothing at all in 10 of the previous 15 years; he took massive income tax deductions for property tax payments […]

Looking at the bag of mackerel in my freezer, I was a little sad to think of not rebating our pair of lobster traps one last time. But, it was getting to be time to pull our boat out and to make the shift into what is officially now fall. At the same time, I […]

Trump’s words on COVID appalling “Don’t be afraid of it… You’re gonna beat it…We have the best medical equipment, the best medicines…” The words of Trump as he spoke to the public. Over 2000,000 Americans have not “beaten” it. Is it possible that many of them didn’t have access to the “best medical equipment, the […]

I know that social media is not the real world, just as Kim Kardashian is not your average working mother. But we have all started to spend parts of our days in the virtual world, and in the post-pandemic era, some of us spend the majority of our waking hours communicating with avatars, digital creations, […]

For Kathryn Kolbert, the current threat to women’s health care could not be more clear: A strengthened conservative majority on the Supreme Court will result in both the Affordable Care Act and Roe v. Wade being overturned. In the case of the former, that would mean the end of protections for people with preexisting conditions, […]