Everyone needs a little digital downtime
Last week, I had my 10th-grade English students read an article about the need for our brains to have a rest from the myriad technologies we use daily from…Click to Continue »
View ArticleGet informed about helping survivors
As we cope with the crisis that churns around us, I would like to remind everyone that there are multiple systems in place to help individuals, families and organizations manage…Click to Continue »
View ArticleShameful job from debt panel
The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week.Click to Continue »
View ArticleDismantle Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Friday.Click to Continue »
View ArticleVouchers are path to education salvation
I am a product of both public and private education systems. I attended a parochial Catholic school through eighth grade and attended a public high school prior to attending Penn…Click to Continue »
View ArticleWinner-loser systems breed stress and denial
According to the Mayan calendar, our civilization starts to end in 2012. For me the collapse started the day I read that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno may have…Click to Continue »
View ArticleProtesters reflect vast majority on 99 percent of major issues
The Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread to scores of cities claims to represent the 99 percent. Does it?Click to Continue »
View ArticleThe only nerve protesters have struck is the gag reflex
The media have gone to great lengths to convince us that Occupy Wall Street protesters are just like the rest of us. One columnist, for example, tells us theyve struck…Click to Continue »
View ArticleParties needs to recognize reality
In my formative years, I was a regular reader of the comic strip Bloom County, which spawned Opus the Penguin, a hapless microcosm of the American middle class.Click to Continue »
View ArticleTeam effort targeting concussions
Heightened awareness of sports-related concussions and a growing concern of the long-term effects of the injury have recently come to the forefront. This injury is seen at all levels of…Click to...
View ArticleGadgets diminish attention to real life
A young woman pointed to the seat next to mine on a recent flight, prompting me to stand in the aisle so she could move in.Click to Continue »
View ArticleParents: Children still need vaccines
The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer.Click to Continue »
View ArticleTax-free charitable giving deadline looms
Earlier this year I wrote to alert folks to the congressional reinstatement of the right during 2011 to make contributions to charity from individual IRA accounts. Today I write to…Click to Continue »
View ArticleChild sex abuse bill wrongheaded
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.Click to Continue »
View ArticleLegislators need dose of reality
Pennsylvania legislators and the governor just allowed themselves to get a 3 percent pay increase. Its automatic, designed so that they dont have to vote for it.Click to Continue »
View ArticleThe fall of the House of Paterno
In the most famous passage of The Aeneid, Joe Paternos favorite book, its venerable hero Aeneas surveys the hopelessness of his situation and pauses to consider his options.Click to Continue »
View ArticleBig money spins major college cocoon
Todays major colleges essentially are de facto corporate-industrial complexes, based solely on their No. 1 sports team on campus.Click to Continue »
View ArticleRunning-mate roulette a game of chance
The Wall Street Journal, normally no admirer of President Barack Obama, nevertheless is proffering some advice for the embattled president. Drop Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket and replace him…Click to...
View ArticleSlow it down, ICANN
The following editorial appeared in Mondays Washington Post.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSchool choice must address the 5 percent
Pennsylvania has a simple choice to make. We can embrace change and welcome educational reform or we can choose to satisfy ourselves with the tired old policies of the past…Click to Continue »
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