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...
by Ken Sehested | Aug 21, 2020 | Opinion
Who would have thought that Mr. McFeely could be the flashpoint of a fierce struggle for the preservation of democratic institutions in the U.S.? Of course, Mr. McFeely, the lovable deliveryman and avatar for our nation’s postal carriers on “Mister Rogers’...
by Ken Sehested | Jul 24, 2020 | Opinion
Important news often goes unnoticed in an attention-deficit-disordered culture, exacerbated by a news cycle that feels like a gerbil on a spinning wheel track. Taken together, in just the past few weeks, six dramatic actions on slowing ecological disaster are worth...
