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The town of Amenia commemorated Memorial Day at Fountain Square with VFW Post 5444. Afterward, some of the VFW members were still lined up at the square. VFW Post Commander Madison Fletcher, far right, who led the ceremony, posed for a photo with her mother and her daughter. Fletcher is the first female commander in the Post’s history.
Recently the New York Times rediscovered its previous auto safety news beat that blossomed in the 1960s after my book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) caused an uproar in Detroit.
Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, a graduate of Harvard Law School, asked his colleagues: “If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a president impeached, then what is?” Ten Republicans voted for Impeachment, but 197 House Republicans disagreed. Trump incited the crowd in person on the Mall.
Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are the widgets of the big information industry. By contrast, indicators for our society’s democratic health are not similarly compiled, aggregated and reported. Its up and down trends are presented piecemeal and lack quantitative precision.
If the planet Earth were animate, it would have shuddered at the news that S. David Freeman passed away May 12. Freeman was that important to Earth’s future. In his 94th year, he inspired all he met with his burning passion, relentless energy and keen intellect.
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