The Fourth of July holiday is looming.
Living where I do, it’s easy to get caught up in the Fourth of July pageantry.
Fans of the national pastime, there is good news: The baseball gods have answered your prayers. The summer of 2020 will not be a total loss. The Major League Baseball season will be drastically abbreviated, short on spectators and different in ways that may cause purists to pound the ground …
You can live in Washington, D.C., amid the nation’s cherished monuments to democracy and representative government — the U.S. Capitol, the stately congressional office buildings, the White House — and still be among the most disenfranchised citizens in the nation.
Since 2004, Joy and I have lived in three houses.
A price tag is more than just a number on a piece of paper. The cost of an item on a menu isn’t pulled out of a hat.
I had never heard of the Orphan Trains as part my study of American History in school. That seems a bit strange to me, considering that these trains were used from 1854 until the early 1930s, a period of more than 75 years, and formed a significant part of our country’s past.
The Wall Street Journal on the American Museum of Natural History removing an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt flanked by a Native American man and African American man that stands on the building’s entrance:
The Wall Street Journal on the American Museum of Natural History removing an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt flanked by a Native American man and African American man that stands on the building’s entrance:
There’s a lot of federal stimulus money — $2.6 billion — targeted to provide relief for Pennsylvania’s nursing homes, small businesses and local governments. What there isn’t at the moment is much oversight as to how the money is to be spent and accounted for.
