‘Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!’ So goes the refrain of Bob Franke’s great folk anthem. And so say we all here in Vermont’s…
New Trier, Minn.: German Catholic Cemetery 7/16/11 We’ve heard much in the past several months about moving responsibility for regulation closer to the people, making Federal duties State, turning state…
Los Angeles: Getty Center Porch at Tea Time 11/2009 Fifteen years ago, few with power in Massachusetts exercised it with more relish and publicity than then Boston University president, John…
With the President – and rafts of other people – fleeing the oncoming hurricane, this quotation from the architectural and social historian, Vincent Scully, explains why summers at the shore…
Today is Ray Bradbury’s 91st birthday. I have admired his writing since I was a boy – first hearing The Martian Chronicles dramatized on radio, then reading it. As an…
This morning, POLITICO Playbook’s Mike Allen reports: OBAMA IS ROLLING IN A BRAND-NEW, JET-BLACK , $1.1-million armored bus with blacked out windows. The Secret Service owns it, but it’s not…
Updated: 16th August 2011 11:00 a.m. Link added. Reader Alert: Snark attack! Snark attack! That’s what I’ve suffered, and if you don’t wish to share it, stop here. Borrowing a…
Back in the days when I regularly read The New York Observer, I looked forward to Nicholas von Hoffman’s columns. His were essays marked by style, passion and intelligence. While…