What Do I Know?

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...

 A good, clear, emphatic explanation of why people need to vote every election for Democrats.  She explains how the government works for peo...

[There are so many forces and issues intertwined.  Every day there are new shocking reports to support one thing or another that I argue her...