Category Perspectives on Today’s Issues

The headline of an article published in Pittsburgh Magazine posed the question “Can Pittsburgh Save The Planet?” That’s because from September 21-23 thousands of researchers, business leaders and politicians from more than 30 countries were in Pittsburgh to attend the…

Possibly the second most iconic line from the 1967 movie The Graduate, is at Benjamin’s graduation party when his neighbor, Mr. McGuire, takes him aside and says, “Benjamin, there’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think…

I bought my first hybrid car in 2006. A black Toyota Prius. Since then every car I’ve owned has been a hybrid. The Ford Escape Hybrid is my current car. I love hybrid cars and wouldn’t drive anything else, and…

In 1814, after the British bombardment failed at Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key was so inspired by the sight of the American Flag still flying in the early morning, that he wrote the poem Defense of Fort McHenry. Within a…

I can’t imagine what life is like for the millions of people who live in Ukraine. As I write this, the once beautiful seaport city of Mariupol has fallen to Russia. And Russia plans to execute the 260 Ukrainian soldiers…

From 1980 to 2016 Prairie Home Companion was the Saturday night choice of entertainment for approximately 2.6 million listeners who tuned into NPR radio for 2 hours of fun. On one Saturday each year they did “The Joke Show”. The…

In addition to the illness and deaths caused by Covid-19 in the past two years, it has also caused unprecedented stress, anxiety, and frustration for hundreds of millions who never got the virus. Much of that is due to the…

I never liked history classes until I got to college. My freshman year in college I had a professor who made the subject fascinating and relevant. Until then I had only been taught American history, and it was taught as…

Author Edith Wharton wrote in her autobiography that her book The Age of Innocence allowed her to find a momentary escape in going back to her childish memories of a long-vanished America. The Age of Innocence was published in 1920.…

Approximately 210 million Americans don’t have access to high speed internet, according to MicroSoft Corp. I’m one of them. I split my time between my water-front home on Florida’s Forgotten Coast and my husband’s ranch at the top of a…