Last Saturday, I stood in the pounding rain with 160 protesters.  An occasional wind gust blew back my rain hood, adding to the midwinter chill. Unlike the protesters in Minneapolis, those of us lining the street didn’t suffer freezing temperatures, but we shivered enough to feel h

Tax time is almost here, a period when, like the cartoon character Snoopy, we wish we could write the IRS asking to be removed from their mailing list. People little realize that taxes are a form of power because a bureaucracy funded by taxpayers is beholden to them.  Cut that “umb

The anthropologist Margaret Mead spent her life studying humans and came up with observations that go unchallenged today. One of them is, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.  But, like the