Catching Up: Good Senate candidates; Major wetlands proposal; and more
I have been very slow to update this site, so there is a plethora of material to share. First, separate features on two candidates for the U.S. Senate (Ed Gillespie […]
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The Rot within Common Core
My latest column for the Mobile Press-Register and al.com, limited to 600 words, gives concrete examples of how Common Core’s supposed “integration” of academic disciplines with each other actually leads […]
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Ryder Cup Regrets
Perhaps the less said, the better, about the embarrassing American results in this year’s Ryder Cup and indeed in Ryder Cups in general dating back 20 years, apart from Ben […]
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Mobile Council Backstabs City… but now, let’s find a solution
Mobile residents should have been fuming two days ago when the City Council reversed its earlier promises and overrode Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s veto of an extension of the city’s “extra […]
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Victory!!! (?) (Sales Tax to be Reversed!)
The public spoke, and the Mobile City Council apparently has listened. Now even Councilman Fred Richardson, a longtime, straightforward advocate of a permanent extension of Mobile’s “extra penny” sales tax […]
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The Faithless Gina Gregory
Gina Gregory’s honesty lies in serious question, now that she has engineered another three-year extension of the final penny of Mobile’s hideously high combined (city/county/state) sales tax of 10 percent. […]
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Fire the Mobile City Council. Now.
In just 21 minutes today, six members of the City Council of Mobile (all but Bess Rich) broke faith with the citizens of Mobile, sandbagged taxpayers, hurt the city’s long-term […]
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Thoughts on the Saints’ Awful Start
Drew Brees is correct that the Saints have begun this season almost exactly in the way they started last season: Each of their first two games came down, in effect, […]
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Mary Landrieu, Agonistes
More by a confluence of circumstances than through intent, I wrote three different pieces on Mary Landrieu last week, with her re-election race heating up and several controversies dogging her. […]
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Catching Up: Israel, Edwin Edwards, Obama Resignation….
Sorry I have been away for a while. Travels made it tough to get on site, and then I just fell further behind. Herewith, then, a collection of what I’ve […]
