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Break up has arrived in Anchorage.  It waited until almost April this year, but finally, the messy harbinger of warmer weather, of white rep...

Fascist states censor. They want to control what people believe to be true.   Stephen Colbert interviewed Texas state representative James ...

Time is passing on fast forward.  Today is April Fools Day, 2025, but it's hard to come up with anything crazier than what the US presid...

INTRO:   Part I is here.   If you find this topic dry and hard to get your head around, then you are half way there.  Because some of the ...

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

[Overview:  The key here is the video.  Find 30 minutes to watch/listen.  It puts lots of important things into place.  The rest of the post...

There's a coup happening in DC.  There's no other way to describe it.  The president is nominating and the Senate is approving candi...

 I'd like to write a post about key problems our democratic system hasn't been able to handle - like preventing a convicted rapist, ...

From the August 31, 2024 LA Times:  [Note the digital and facsimile editions have different titles.]   As someone who taught public administ...