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I remember the call. The city manager told me to buckle up. A rezoning for a smelly new potato-salad factory was coming my way. On a street with nothing but houses. My life as a planner flashed before me like the grainy black and white final scene of “Frankenstein” — angry village mobs ...
Like nearly everyone my age, when the calendar turns to Sept. 11, I think about where I was on that day. Unlike many, presumably, I also wonder about deer hunting. For that, I have to thank the small community of Anthony — a town of about 2,100 people an hour south of Wichita. In September ...
It’s one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress — quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us. I’m talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in common. Trump said he “decided” to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America ...
“True is it that we have seen better days.” — William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of ...
Historians may settle on President Donald Trump’s demolition of the United States Agency for International Development as the perfect exemplar of America’s precipitous plunge: the nullification of the best and most idealistic of what we have to offer by those whose values are the worst and ...
