An article in the Wall St. Journal this week highlighted yet another area of a labor shortage in the country that has been fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic: “Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private…
Category: Editorials
Pres. Biden’s Supreme Court Pick
There has been criticism from the usual suspects regarding President Joe Biden’s declared intention to choose a Black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court seat to fill that of Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his imminent retirement last week. We’d…
Guest Op-Ed: America’s Crumbling Bridges, Can We Save Ourselves?
Dr. Glenn Mollette The Forbes Avenue bridge over Fern Hollow Creek in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park collapsed last Friday morning, January 28th with several vehicles, including a Port Authority bus, on the span at the time. The bridge that collapsed is known…
Mayor Michelle Wu: Grace Under Pressure
The job of mayor of a large American city never has been easy, but these days the challenges facing our public officials who lead our major metropolitan areas are greater than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a confluence of…
Something Else to Worry About
We were driving on the Expressway the other day and we heard on the radio that the Florida orange crop will be at its lowest output since the 1940s. “What? The 1940s?!?” we thought to ourselves. The point of the…
We Must Never Forget The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we were watching the recent coverage by the media of the events of a year ago on January 6, we were struck by the contrast between the Trump Mob’s violent storming of the Capitol and the many peaceful marches…
Guest Op-Ed: The Way to Combat the Horror of Jan. 6, Is to Abolish the Filibuster
By Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) In 1787, upon exiting the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of people who asked him what kind of government the delegates had created. His answer: “A republic, if you can…
If COVID-19 Has a Brain, It’s Much Smarter Than Us
We don’t pretend to be experts in biology — and maybe we’ve been watching too many science fiction movies these days — but the ability of the COVID-19 virus to mutate (or shape-shift, in the lingo of sci-fi fans) in…
On the Bright Side…..
The lengthening of the daylight hours is imperceptible at first. The least amount of daylight occurred on December 22, clocking in at nine hours, seven minutes. But by the end of this week, January 8, we’ll have nine hours and…
Guest Op-Ed: Developing a Plan for 2022
By Glenn Mollette Proverbs 29.18 “Where there is no vision the people perish. “Everyone needs a strategy. You may be 25 or 85 years in age. Who cares? Probably the only one who cares about your age is you. Your…