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Monday, October 2, 2023
Washington Post contributing columnist Brian Broome’s contribution this week, “Jason Aldean? Spare Me the Small-Town Nostalgia,” touches an especially sensitive nerve, for me and for society generally, as the Aldean hit song, “Try That in a Small Town” is now hitting the top of the country western charts. The song […]
Saturday, July 21 — The City of Falls Church is far outperforming all other jurisdicitions in Virginia in terms of income investment, a new study from Smart Asset shows. SmartAsset has released its annual study on the places receiving the most incoming investment. The study measures growth in Gross Domestic […]
The Washington Blade’s great veteran reporter and my friend Lou Chibbaro did a terrific job writing the obituary for Lily Vincenz last month. Vincenz was a true “gay pioneer” who marched in picket lines in front of the White House in the mid-1960s, when it was definitely a bold and courageous act. […]
Shinya Akaike, a close friend during a politically intense period in the late 1970s and whose friendship was moderately restored through social media in recent years, died at age 72 in Detroit, Michigan. Born in Kobe, Japan, on August 27, 1950, Akaike came to America when he was seven and […]
“The analysis of yesterday’s evil Supreme Court decision seems too tepid to me. By treating this as a free speech issue (particularly because it was wedding related) the court reversed the central victory of the lgbtq civil rights movement – that being gay is WHO you are not unlike being […]
Here are comments made on Air Force One to the press en route to Chicago today by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton: “The President will make the case for Bidenomics, his plan to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, a fundamental break […]
