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Labor Day September 5, 1882

…Democrat Grover Cleveland to the White House. A number of Republicans crossed over to support the reformer, afraid that, as he said, “The gulf between employers and the employed is…

Getting Veteran Voters on Board

…raters aren’t given sufficient time to understand veterans’ complex disability claims,” one Gulf War veteran explains, “this results in mistakes, which in turn creates long delays and a tsunami of…

On Remembrance Day

…alive today do not remember Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, or even the collapse of communism in 1989-91. And in places like Ukraine and Taiwan, we see the escalating…

Solutions for a salty future

…as a “salt water wedge” moved up the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico. Although the crisis was averted, the underlying issues remain for the city. The source of…

The Legacy

…Trump’s alienating our neighbors, attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and threatening to annex Greenland and Panama were stupid unless you are a con artist wannabe-emperor of pax americana…