by Ken Sehested | Feb 1, 2021 | Opinion
Our local paper has a weekly section devoted to cuisine and often reviews the plentiful restaurant scene in our city that’s a magnet for tourism. Last week’s focus was captioned “No more dishes: 13 family-style meals ready for takeout.” The third paragraph in the...
by Ken Sehested | Jan 14, 2021 | Opinion
Admiring Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream is not the same as being captured by it. Too many find it possible to respect the man but relinquish the mission. It has become too easy to revere the dreamer but renege on the dream. So, let us now recall the deep roots...
by Ken Sehested | Nov 11, 2020 | Opinion
Veterans Day doesn’t lend itself to commercial attention like its twin, Memorial Day. This is probably because it’s squeezed between two other cash-registering holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it does not coincide with a car-cultural observance like the Indy...
by Ken Sehested | Oct 23, 2020 | Opinion
The United States is at one of the most dangerous moments in our nation’s political history. We have a president who thinks “when someone is president of the United States, the authority is total.” Someone who winks at white supremacist terror plots to assassinate...
by Ken Sehested | Aug 28, 2020 | Opinion
Kindred, the news is bleak. For we live in the valley of the shadow, when: The stock market reaches record-breaking levels amid near record-breaking rates of unemployment 1% of U.S. citizens , while the bottom half is saddled with more debts than assets The median...
