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Can you feel it? There’s never been tension like this ahead of a presidential election, at least not in most of our lifetimes. Lots of folks have invoked 1968 as a comparison to what’s...
Tomorrow, as tens of millions of citizens queue up at the polls, three forces are converging on America. The first force is social — extreme levels of inequality unlike anything we’ve ever seen...
An Election Day like no other is set to take place in just two days. There are worries that even a decisive victory for either Presidential candidate will further foment chaos and division in this...
Growing up, my family was one of the poorest in our town. Despite my father working his behind off on our small vegetable farm in western Washington, he never made much money.  Our family car...
I am one of those people who is anxious to get back to traveling. I’m used to spending the weekend in the Florida Keys, or on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Plus, I had plans to spend quite a bit of...
The markets got walloped on Monday, with the Dow plunging more than 900 points intraday before closing off 650. The S&P 500 shed 1.9%, its sharpest decline in more than a month. Equities...
The headline numbers for Monday were bad. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 800 points. The S&P 500 Index shed more than 2%. And the average number of new daily cases of coronavirus in the...
One week ago, I warned it was time to face the facts — That the official number of new COVID-19 cases had just surged to record highs in select regions … That those spikes were just the first...
We are collectively holding our breath as Election Day approaches. There are concerns that even after the ballots are counted, uncertainty, chaos and social turmoil will further rock the...
Try not to laugh ... I owned a white polyester suit and took disco dance lessons when I was a student at the University of Washington in the 1970s. It’s sad, but true. Paramount Pictures...