Opinion

Well, my first trip to San Francisco was short-lived because of the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the city for 3 weeks as soon as I arrived.

My Aunt Cecelia was just beginning the eighth grade when it happened.

“The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.” — Marmee, in Louisa May Alcotes “Little Women.”

“Where are you from? Russia?” the middle-aged woman asked matter-of-factly, as she walked toward her polling place in Seaside, California on Super Tuesday. She had been approached by a man wearing a Cossack Ushanka hat with a hammer and sickle pin, offering to buy her vote.

Florida is famous for botching elections. Iowa Democrats made a strong bid for that distinction in their caucuses last month. And now, for some reason, Texas is competing for the title.

The recent New York Times article “The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads” used Wisconsin as a microcosm for the infrastructure crisis that either directly or indirectly affects all Americans.