Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette July 20, 2022 Fox Noise is missing an opportunity to not only blame Joe Biden for inflation, gas prices, border crossings and the ongoing Ukrainian war. His worse sin may go back to 20l0. The ACA or Obamacare passed by a whisker following intensive lobbying and arm twisting byContinue reading “Sworn oaths. Slippery slopes”
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What’s for dinner? Democracy!
Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette November 5, 2021 “A farmer’s final meal of the day.” The million-dollar Jeopardy champ, Matt Amodio, would answer, “What’s supper?” Speaking of WWLP-22, its parent company, Nexstar Media Group, controls 199 TV stations that reach 68% of U.S. households. Lately, they’re using trusted local anchors to push aContinue reading “What’s for dinner? Democracy!”
Impeach me, I was there
Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette November 19, 2019 Gump-like Writer Witnesses Three Impeachments Time was that a citizen alive for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson would be long dead in the 106 years between he and Nixon. Americans live in a speeded up world. Committed voters of a certain ageContinue reading “Impeach me, I was there”
Finding the right words
Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette 5/7/2021 My educational trek featured a UMass poetry class. It was a jittery leap. The presiding poet was from Kashmir, and my classmates half the age of yours truly. A welcoming Shahid Ali wrote the King’s English with a clarity we could only aspire to. I’d written poetryContinue reading “Finding the right words”
James Francis Cahillane 