I’ve complained about this before … the growing shortage of good, capable, informed, intelligent people running for office at every level. And I mean people of both political parties. But in every election cycle, fewer quality people take the plunge and run for office. Consider for a moment what it takes to run…
For quite a number of years, I have enjoyed exchanging personal emails with regular readers of this blog. We all have a great deal in common, but sometimes those emails have been about our differing political views. In a comment posted just yesterday on this site, one of those regular readers complains that I am…
This past Saturday, I was sitting in the Portland airport killing time by skimming through a newspaper. One of the stories reported that American Airlines was reducing the “pitch” by two inches between rows of seats on a large order of new Boeing jets being delivered over the next several months. Two inches doesn’t…
A year ago, the annual Fall meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) was held in Indianapolis. It was a successful meeting and we all enjoyed what we saw of the city . . . with one notable exception: the Indianapolis Railway Station. At one time, Indianapolis boasted one of the great…