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Money Matters: Crisis Of Trust In Our Rainbow Nation
Jun 01, 2016
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We Americans aren’t the only people on the continent who are fed up with gridlock and corruption. Throughout Latin America, citizens are throwing out old regimes: Guatemala, Honduras, Argentina and most recently, Brazil. Unfortunately, the populists champions who ride into power,
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Hillary Clinton: Not Living In Anyone’s Shadow
May 31, 2016
After my blog of May 19, 2016 in support of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, a reader sent me a column by Gail Collins that appeared in the New York Times. (Click) The gist of her remarks were a warning to the presumptive Democratic candidate that she avoid wrapping her i
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Flowers, Panhandlers And Prostitute
May 30, 2016
Flowers and other plants would seem to be a part of nature. But not so, if it’s a petunia called Candy Bouquet and sold in garden shops. This flower, magenta and yellow, was bred in Germany by growers who manipulated the pollen to create a new color combination. Is the new desig
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Money Lost Down The Rat Hole Of Good Intentions
May 27, 2016
Money, like water, is fluid and not always controlled. In Brazil, for example, the corporate tax rate is 34%, among the highest in the world. One would hope so much money would flow to the public’s benefit. Instead, it has been lost down a rat hole of corruption, leaving
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Liberal Versus Conservative Mind Sets
May 26, 2016
New York Times writer, Nocholas Kristof identified an inconvenient truth, recently, about the liberal mindset. Progressives have great empathy for war victims in other countries, for the poor and even abused chickens, but show little tolerance for conservatives. (Click) As proof,
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Secular Stagnation, Class Warfare And The Vision of Larry Summers
May 25, 2016
“Economists joke that the questions on their doctoral exams haven’t changed in 50 years, but the answers have.” (“The Curse of The Big Bad Rut,” by Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek, May 16-22, 2016 pg. 14.) The same lack of imagination could be laid at the feet of politic
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Compassionate-Use: A War Between The Heart and Head
May 24, 2016
While serving in public life, a colleague and I engaged in an intense debate that was heartfelt on both sides. The hearing room was packed as the commissioners weighed the prospect of starting a new program, despite a projection from the budget office that there would be a shortfall
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Hate, Politics, Passion And Reason
May 23, 2016
The reason people send hate mail, according to essayist William Giraldi, is that it cheers them up. (“Cruel Intentions,” by William Giraldi, New Republic, June 2016, pg.64.) To prove his case, he cites the views of William Hazlitt, a minister and essayist (1737–1820). Haza
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White Women Dying Young
May 20, 2016
Young white women are dying. No, not from assaults and beatings, though that continues at a high rate. The current epidemic affects women between 25 and 55 years of age. Suicides are half the reason. The other reason is drug and alcohol overdose. Most of these women live r
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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