We have a new spat in Kansas City regarding a one-percent tax on income earned within the city limits. Employees pay a percent out of their incomes. Employers pay a percent on the employee’s incomes. It used to be a grand idea when the city center was still the metropolitan…
Leave a CommentMonth: February 2010
Jack, I had a great dream last night. It was all about Mary Welsch(sp?). I didn’t actually get to get too close to her in the biblical sense, which was too bad, but we did have a great conversation. I can’t tell you what that conversation was about. For all…
Leave a CommentDear Meryl, I hope you will forgive me for writing this, and, perhaps, even sending it off to you. But, frankly, I have reached an age when stray thoughts and life’s loose ends visit far too frequently. Those loose ends have no need of binding, being random entities with beauties…
Leave a CommentFact is, things have never been simple, and the past has never been as great as we want it to be. As a historian, I often use Raymond Williams’ The Country and the City to illustrate this point. Williams, a literary critic and historian, looked at Western literature asking the…
Leave a CommentDear Jim, We didn’t agree to Kyoto precisely because of what you point out. But I will put it a different way. American corporations and investors, the very people who tell us all about the good of the free market and free enterprise, do business with a country that does…
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