Sunday, March 23, 2025

Easy Sunday: College costs, then and now.

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1971 Spring Semester: Tuition. Board, and Room. Starting this fall, Harvard University students with family incomes of $200,000 and under wi...
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Catalyst: The Townsend Plan

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Before Social Security.  Before the GI Bill. Before Medicare. Before Medicaid. Before the Child Care Tax Credit. Before talk of Universal Ba...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

The rich spend a lot. They don't spend enough.

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The richest 10 percent of Americans do 49.7 percent of all spending.  Those are households making $250,000 a year or more. I don't do fi...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Canada strategy

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Trump praises Canada and says it " would be our biggest, most beautiful — it would be great, this state.” Meanwhile he demeans the coun...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

A garden columnist talks to AI

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I apologized to my sister for accidentally bumping into her, and began with the words "Hey, sorry." My i-Pad spoke up in the famil...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Signs of change

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The past persists in the signs that have not yet been changed. The future shows in the ones that have. Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washingto...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

To shut down or not to shut down? That is the question.

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There is a better question. It is who gets the blame for the disruption and waste of a government shutdown. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley wrot...
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