The 1993 movie, “Groundhog Day,” has been looping endlessly through my mind.
Actor Bill Murray, who plays the hot-shot TV weatherman Phil Connors, is in Puxatawney repor...
While many Americans are watching the daily news conferences by President Donald Trump and some governors, the action behind the scenes is being led by the elected offic...
In his heydey, Mayor Ed Koch relished moving about New York City and asking anyone in earshot, “How’m I doing?” Typically, we New Yorkers would give him an earful.
Presi...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Don’t know where or when that quote originated or who spoke it first but it always seems to be correct.
The new stimu...
The rise of novel coronavirus has transformed everything I’d come to know as normal.
The scratchy throat that in previous years I’d dismiss as the onset of spring allerg...
Back in the 1950s, the TV show “Dragnet’s Sgt. Joe Friday famously advised witnesses: “Just the facts, ma’am.” That phrase became a national slogan, long before the very...
In the middle of March, when we first got a sense of how much would change because of the coronavirus, a friend joked, “I didn’t plan on giving up this much for Lent.”
I...
What William McKinley was to the front-porch campaign, Joe Biden is to the basement campaign.
Sidelined and confined to his house by the dictates of coronavirus social ...
I hear the chatter and squeals of children coming from over the back fence in the middle of a spring day in the middle of the week while out front, in the street, there’...
The surprising group left out of the coronavirus rescue bill
The $2 trillion stimulus package passed by the Senate Wednesday and the House Friday provides enormous loans ...
