TOWARD THE END OF LAST WEEK’S COLUMN, I mentioned that I was planning to put together a disaster kit to prepare for the effects of the strong El Niño event expected this winter. In researching what to include in a disaster kit, I came across a recent article in The New Yorker by Kathryn Schulz […]
Dennis Lund: Can we talk honestly about immigration?
RECENT IMPOLITIC COMMENTS BY DONALD TRUMP raised the topic of illegal immigration to new levels — and, to no one’s surprise, resulted in Trump’s excoriation by the open borders crowd. His mouth later got him into more trouble with his remarks regarding Sen. John McCain, remarks that essentially removed him from further consideration for the […]
Matt Talbot: Will this year’s El Niño be ‘super’? Be prepared
AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER, I have always been interested in meteorology. I remember more or less living in the library of my elementary school, devouring every book I could find about weather. By the fifth grade I could read a weather map and identify every element — the isothermal lines that showed […]
On Eagles’ Wings: God’s intention behind the commandments
“Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. (Romans 3:19). AFTER FOUR CENTURIES OF SLAVERY, the calling of Moses, plagues of judgment, the first Passover, crossing the Red Sea […]
Matt Talbot: One giant leap…
AS YOU ARE NO DOUBT AWARE, NASA’s New Horizons probe arrived at Pluto this week, and pictures and other data are now being beamed back to earth to the amazement of just about everyone who has seen those first, tantalizing glimpses of a heretofore hidden world. Watching the first data come in from that distant […]
Bruce Robinson: The diversity diversion
MOST OF US UNDERSTAND why a big company might need a CEO, CFO, CIO and COO. But a top-level diversity boss? What’s that about? Today there are CDOs in the executive suites of most U.S. corporations, including AT&T, Dell, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, as well as at the helm […]
Matt Talbot: A unique remedy for underserved communities
ONE IDEA I’VE BEEN MEANING TO WRITE ABOUT is a proposal to provide banking services to underserved communities — typically poorer neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color — through the U.S. Postal Service. As a practical matter, the only financial services now available in those underserved communities are payday lenders and check cashing joints. For those […]
Matt Talbot: America — out of many, one
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island; From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters; This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie ONE OF THE REASONS I FEEL QUALIFIED to speak of the United States is that I have travelled […]
Dennis Lund: The need for a Convention of the States
OUR FREEDOM WAS WON AT THE COST OF BLOOD by men desirous of liberty unconstrained by tyrannical authority, and responding to unacceptable tyranny from a malevolent king. Once liberty was gained, the choice was made to decentralize power so as to not fall under the will of a single or limited power. Men like Madison, […]
Thoughts on the end of the road for the Grateful Dead
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Matthew 24:6-8 THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF THE DEAD was reading how the Diggers burned “Hippie” in effigy in Life magazine in the summer […]