Dear Granddaddy, what happens to ungrateful children when they become adults? Linda-mother of an ungrateful child. Well, Linda, we know that this big world can be unforgiving. We also know how good our kids have it under our roofs. However,…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:53 PM] Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:44 PM] The Washington Post The tension between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and several high-profile freshman lawmakers has been building arguably since before their elections, and it seems to be cresting. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., comments this week to The Washington…
Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:43 PM] Bloomberg Opinion You can identify companies’ sore spots by what gets them angry. Last week, the executive in charge of Amazon.com’s logistics operation tweeted a rebuttal to a television show. Comedian John Oliver had devoted one of his trademark…
Posted: 03 July 2019 [03:19 PM] Bloomberg President Donald Trump, who seems obsessed with undoing his predecessor’s legacy, is in danger of repeating Barack Obama’s fundamental mistake on Iran: Making the confrontation with the Islamic Republic almost exclusively about nuclear weapons. In recent weeks, Trump has…
Posted: 03 July 2019 [03:18 PM] Special to The Washington Post President Donald Trump has decided that the Fourth of July belongs to him. In February, he announced on Twitter that he was rebranding the day as a “Salute to America” that would feature “an address…
Posted: 30 June 2019 [08:50 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Reporters and editors at mainstream media outlets should be on their best behavior these days, after years of accusations of “fake news.” But there’s a type of misleading reporting that many are finding hard to avoid: the creation…
Posted: 30 June 2019 [08:46 PM] By Erica Racz Special To The Washington Post Editor’s note: As told to Washington Post editor Sophia Nguyen. I woke up early on Jan. 8, the very first day that I was eligible to vote again in Florida. I arrived…
Posted: 28 June 2019 [02:46 PM] The Washington Post Of all the dynamics at play in the Supreme Court’s just-concluded term, none was more intriguing than this latest chapter in the story of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Graduates of the same high school, members…
Posted: 28 June 2019 [02:44 PM] The Washington Post In the first Democratic debate Wednesday night, one telling moment came when the 10 presidential candidates onstage were asked what they’d do if Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is still majority leader in 2021 and stands ready to…
Second Look Part II: Your questions and my answers Posted: 26 June 2019 [08:01 PM] Art Secondo Southington Chamber of Commerce Q. Why is Center Street a one-way road? A. Back in 2000 when downtown renovation was…
Posted: 25 June 2019 [06:40 PM] Dear Granddaddy, what do teenagers wish their parents knew? Coran- A Dad. Well, Coran, I’d start with telling you what I’ve told thousands of parents over the last two decades. Your children won’t tell you, but they really do want…
Posted: 25 June 2019 [02:53 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Way back in 1979, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould made a case that cuteness is not an arbitrary notion, but a measurable trait that can make people feel protective and nurturing. Scientists have since measured the trait…
Posted: 25 June 2019 [02:50 PM] The Washington Post Having withdrawn the United States from a series of international agreements, then spending a couple of years denigrating NATO while wondering why more countries aren’t paying us protection money, President Donald Trump is apparently not so hot…
Posted: 25 June 2019 [02:14 PM] Granddaddy’s Secrets Dear Granddaddy, what do teenagers wish their parents knew? Coran- A Dad. Well, Coran, I’d start with telling you what I’ve told thousands of parents over the last two decades. Your children won’t tell you, but they really…
Posted: 21 June 2019 [04:24 PM] Bloomberg Opinion There are those who complain that the U.S. has lost a lot of its regional distinctiveness. “It wasn’t just the coffee shops - bars, restaurants, even the architecture of all the new housing going up in these cities…
Posted: 21 June 2019 [04:23 PM] The Washington Post Former Vice President Joe Biden’s gaffe in boasting of his work “across the aisle” (actually, they were Democrats, making the story he told even more inapt) with segregationist Southern senators in the 1970s hasn’t gone away as…
Posted: 19 June 2019 [07:36 PM] The Washington Post The Washington Post reports on escalating tensions between the United States and Iran after apparent Iranian attacks on tanker ships and a threat to exceed the enrichment levels set out in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…
Posted: 18 June 2019 [06:34 PM] Dear Granddaddy, what screams, “I peaked in high school!”? Keith Well, Keith, for many of us, especially the successful high school athletes, theater stars, or any others who stood out in high school, it can feel like we peaked in…
Posted: 14 June 2019 [07:09 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Economists teach us that resources don’t just run out. As something becomes scarcer, its price rises, triggering a search for new supplies or the discovery of substitutes. We’ve seen it happen over the past two decades in the…
Posted: 14 June 2019 [06:58 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump has publicly invited foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 election without fear of being exposed. This denigrates, if not directly countermands, the FBI director’s direction to report such contacts and confirmed the gravamen…
Posted: 12 June 2019 [07:48 PM] The Washington Post It’s become a major fault line in Democratic politics: Is President Donald Trump himself the chief cause of all that ails us? Or does Trump’s ascendancy reflect much broader pathologies afflicting the Republican Party - its increasing…
Posted: 12 June 2019 [07:34 PM] Jewish News Syndicate U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s remarks over the weekend, in which he indicated Israel could annex parts of Judea and Samaria, are not so dramatic as they seem. As former President George W. Bush’s famous letter…
Posted: 11 June 2019 [07:31 PM] Granddaddy’s Secrets Dear Granddaddy, I’m a 15-year old girl and I really want to have a baby. What should I do? Taylor- student. Taylor, listen, I get it. I honestly do. We all want to have someone who will love…
Posted: 11 June 2019 [07:21 PM] Liam Denning Bloomberg Opinion In a commodity business, cost is king. The efficient producer ultimately wins more business and more investment - and that is as true for countries as it is for companies. The shale boom, along with slowing…
Posted: 11 June 2019 [07:21 PM] Column Earlier this week I traveled to central Illinois to speak at a memorial service at Eureka College, my dad’s alma mater, on the 15th anniversary of his death. As I flew halfway across the country and talked to many…
Posted: 07 June 2019 [07:31 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Two years ago today, the tottering edifice known as the Gulf Cooperation Council collapsed in a heap when three of its members-Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain-announced an embargo on a fourth, Qatar. The troika, joined…
Posted: 07 June 2019 [07:30 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Greece and Poland are stepping up their demands for Germany to pay reparations for World War II. This may appear to be little more than an attempt to pander to domestic voters. But, in fact, it’s an effort…
Posted: 05 June 2019 [04:49 PM] Special to The Washington Post McDonald’s does a world-class job of churning out predictably perfect french fries, milkshakes and hamburgers, but it has struggled to get something of much higher importance right across its 14,000 franchises in 100 countries -preventing…
Posted: 05 June 2019 [04:48 PM] The Washington Post The past 48 hours should remind Democrats and the rest of the country of the necessity of picking a candidate capable of beating President Donald Trump in 2020. Imagine a president who will not go overseas to…
Posted: 04 June 2019 [07:49 PM] Dear Granddaddy, doesn’t life just seem pointless? We’re born, we live a little while, then we die? Woody Well, Woody, I can see the math, science, and logic in your question. However, we humans are a little more than just…
Posted: 02 June 2019 [08:06 PM] Mayor of Bristol As we transition seasons, there are many ceremonies and rituals that occur. A few events have stood out in my mind that help define who we are as a community. Here are some Bristol All-Heart moments that…
Posted: 31 May 2019 [07:18 PM] Special to The Washington Post With few exceptions, I prefer reading the book to seeing the movie, but most people remember images, voices and dialogue - “You can’t handle the truth” (“A Few Good Men”), “You’re gonna need a bigger…
Posted: 31 May 2019 [07:12 PM] The Washington Post Whatever Arnav Gupta was trying to tell us when he set himself on fire Wednesday near the White House while wearing a USA T-shirt, America needs to listen. Self-immolation is a shocking, final act, the primal scream…
Posted: 31 May 2019 [07:01 PM] Column The artist Georgia O’Keeffe said it best, “Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.” Recently, we unveiled the first of 25 bee sculptures that are part of a public art…
Posted: 30 May 2019 [06:56 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump has been obsessed with the stain Russia’s interference in the 2016 election has left on his presidency. His refusal to recognize that interference, his willingness to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda denying responsibility,…
Posted: 30 May 2019 [06:50 PM] Special to The Washington Post The silly season in Virginia politics usually doesn’t begin until after the Fourth of July, but there’s not much silly about this summer in Virginia politics. It’s been ugly out there for a long time.…
Posted: 28 May 2019 [07:56 PM] Dear Granddaddy, what kind of teachers do students appreciate? Jane- college student. Jane, I’m guessing that you may be an aspiring teacher. If I am correct, then good for you. You have a great life’s journey ahead of you. As…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [06:59 PM] Columnist WASHINGTON - It’s often said that when our founders wrote the Constitution, they had a leader like Donald Trump in mind when they included various safeguards for our liberties and against abuses of presidential power. I think that…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [06:56 PM] President Donald Trump has ordered his former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to defy a congressional subpoena. In support of this maneuver, the president’s lawyers have marshaled what looks like a bipartisan legal consensus that a president’s senior advisers are…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [06:54 PM] The Washington Post Nancy Pelosi has done it before. Earlier this year, she called President Donald Trump’s bluff, held tough and forced him to reopen the government after he shut it down over the wall. She has a knack…
Posted: 21 May 2019 [07:37 PM] Dear Granddaddy, Does my mom have the right to tell me to finish college when she herself never finished? Jessica Well, Jessica, I’m not sure if it really comes down to a right. If you’re in college, I’m assuming you’re…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:38 PM] Special to The Washington Post For a younger generation of women, Alice M. Rivlin was an inspiration. Economics is a man’s field - less so now than in the past - but she showed that a woman could climb to…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:25 PM] Special to The Washington Post Alabama’s Senate has voted to ban nearly all abortions of pregnancy, with exceptions only when life or health of the mother is seriously threatened and when the child has a fatal disease. The bill is…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:41 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump cannot admit that the short-term effects of his tariff war hurt Americans. He had to stop insisting China pays the tariffs when his economic adviser Larry Kudlow contradicted him on Fox News. Trump then…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:40 PM] The Washington Post When we moved from New Haven, Connecticut, last year, we struggled to leave our family home, attached not only to the relationships we had built but also to the leafy green streets, the exceptional Yale University libraries…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:35 PM] Dear Granddaddy, my 14-year old daughter told me she is 3 months pregnant. What should I do? Caitlin- A worried mom. Well, Caitlin, I understand that you’re worried about your daughter. I also understand that you are wrestling with a…
Posted: 10 May 2019 [07:29 PM] Bloomberg Opinion On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a curious new plan for “strengthening our democracy”: Because the people of Istanbul had voted the wrong party into power, the city would be holding new elections. Alleging fraud and…
Posted: 10 May 2019 [07:28 PM] Special to The Washington Post As the Democratic presidential primary begins to take shape, I’m thrilled by the growing field of talented, capable contenders - any of whom would be a welcome breath of fresh air for the nation after…
Posted: 08 May 2019 [05:50 PM] The Washington Post A 12-pack of Liquid Death 16.9-ounce tallboys is $21.99 on Amazon. What’s in the cans festooned with dripping golden skulls and the tagline “murder your thirst”? It’s 100% noncarbonated mountain water sourced and canned in the Alps.…
Posted: 08 May 2019 [05:49 PM] The Washington Post Attorney General William Barr refused to play it straight with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Instead of presenting the report objectively, he substituted his own view of the facts. Instead of adhering to the Office of Legal…
