The candidacy of Barack Obama, the first man of color to be the presumptive nominee for President of a major U.S political party, has been a dream come true for some Americans and a waking nightmare for others. Indeed, by the time the electorate and his democratic competition realized the skinny guy, with the funny [...]

Many folks are getting tired of the speeches and the new President telling us things will get worse before they get better. Yah, we get all this, so much for campaign promises, so far the only stimulus we saw was the $158 Million inauguration party in Washington DC – typical, what you expected more? Of [...]

In June 2010 the Mason County Board Of Commissioners voted 9 to 1 to tell the developers, Havgul Clean Energy and Scandia Wind, that they and the majority of the residents in the area could not live with their idea of putting 100 to 200 wind turbines 1.4 miles off shore in Lake Michigan. That [...]

The traffic light turned yellow and my dad eased off the accelerator to let the big blue Oldsmobile super 88 coast to a smooth stop. It was a glorious Sunday morning in the fall of 1957; I was ten years old and thought he knew everything anyone could know. A transplant, from the rural south, [...]