Earlier this year (Jan. 18) Another View promised to offer views that would annoy some people. If the incoherence of responses is any indication, we have been very annoying indeed. Now, it’s the “Right’s” turn. While the headlines and chattering pundits obsess over trivial matters in Helsinki and Washington, the special session of the Maine […]
Ken Frederic
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Advise and inspire
Memorial Day is behind us, along with another crop of commencement addresses. I don’t recall who spoke at any of my own or what they said, but I do remember the speaker at my son’s commencement from VA Tech was named Warner and was so drunk at 11 a.m. that he could not complete a […]
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A constant state of change
The more things change, the more they stay the same wrote, French novelist Alphonse Karr in 1849. Some 120 years later, the innocence of 1950s Ellsworth was long ago and far away as I drove to classes at George Washington University, past the smoldering ruins of neighborhoods along New York Avenue. Martin Luther King and […]
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The season of giving is year-round
Monday is a special day for nearly all Americans. Seventy percent of Americans identify as Christians, but barely more than half of those attend church regularly. Even so, nearly all Americans celebrate Christmas by decorating their homes, shopping for and giving gifts, and gathering with family and friends. Christmas is a busy season for us […]