I have known Steve Hutkins for years and Angry Bear has presented Steve’s articles at Angry Bear for just as long. In the beginning by my friend Dan Crawford would do so. I picked up the effort shortly afterwards. Steve started to write about the USPS when a local post office in New York’s Hudson […]

The following statement appeared in the Smithsonian in 2006. “The United States’ population is growing at the rate of almost 1 percent per year, thanks in part to immigration and its secondary effects. Not only does the United States accept more legal immigrants as permanent residents than the rest of the world combined, but these […]

The stress of being who he is and how he conducts himself to others and the social media may be catching up with him. Cartooning himself as a person being omnipotent and others as characters is not helping his image as the president of the most powerful(?) nation in the world. Rather an interesting commentary […]

The goal for China was always to be a global leader. Nothing has changed. My trips to various Chinese facilities building automotive components for US automotive countries, I could see how their technology was evolving. The United States did help them real such heights by sourcing production to their overseas plants. China could copy the […]

and not because of AI. A person who taught classes on building homes, buildings, etc., I always wanted to do what he was doing in planning housing and structures. It was not in the cards back in 68 and I ended up in the Marine Corps as enlisted. Did my time and got out in […]

A rewrite of a much shorter story about state and local funding and what Trump’s Beautiful Bill (or piece of garbage) does to states. Much of Trump’s cuts are meant to fund a new tax break for the upper 10% and 1% in income. Over ten years, The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) will cut taxes for the […]

All three of mine were in college at one time or another. We had the parental loans. In one case we had to take over a loan Both my wife and I paid off the double-digit thousands of dollars over time. It does not mean everyone else can do so. The overlying factor here is, […]

Newsweek article by Jenna Subdel. “Sonia Sotomayor takes swipe at Brett Kavanaugh over Supreme Court dispute.” I can not find the link to it. It is a Newsweek article which says a lot about arbitrary stops of people who look Hispanic, etc. because they may be in the United Sates illegally. Or you look like […]

“Adjusting minimum wages for inflation is a necessary yet modest step toward protecting affordability for low-wage workers: The case of California’s Fast-Food Council,” Economic Policy Institute Modern labor markets—particularly those that low-wage workers participate in—are characterized by significant employer power. Low-wage employers rarely if ever negotiate pay with workers, instead posting take-it-or-leave-it wage offers. Further, […]

The argument? There really is not an argument. Why? Opponents to the Trump initiative, offer up a century of precedent. One being the United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The decision confirms birthright citizenship applies to almost all children born on U.S. soil, regardless of parental status. Uniformly, courts blocked the Trump administration from implementing […]