by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Home Lower Panel, Media
The Curse of Sports Talk Media Last season, I was taking in a Met’s game, when the third inning started with a close play at first. The Mets’ first baseman ranged far to his right, away from the bag, to field a sharply hit grounder. He tossed it to pitch...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Home Lower Panel, Media
The House on the Lake The Summer we lost our innocence, and the car keys. [ An excerpt from the highly anticipated memoir by Harper Wong-Goldman-Echevarria-Smythe III.] Father turned the chestnut brown, ’79 Chevy Malibu family station wagon off of Rte 507 North...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Business, Home Lower Panel, Politics
Why Can’t Government Be Run Like a Business? “Budget-Conscious” Conservatives have been promoting the idea that “government should be run more like a business” for as long as I can remember. Washington is rife with waste and inefficiency. A bloated...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Business, Home Lower Panel
Government Interference Big Business Unchanged Scene: A standard TV panel discussion. Three panelists and a moderator, all seated in front of a backdrop of logos. The three panelists are older, gray-haired men in expensive suits, sort of like Stadler and Waldorf, the...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Home Lower Panel, Politics
Kristen Gillibrand Made Me Feel Awkward The room we were in was small, tiny. She was in my face the whole time. It was impossible to avoid her gaze, as she continued to maintaining eye contact with me the entire time, I felt like my personal space was being invaded. I...