This Spring brings us yet another local city council election, bringing with it a slew of candidate forums, yard signs, and Facebook fights. By the time this discussion comes around, we'll have considered views on affordable housing, street construction, zoning, economic development, homelessness, and other issues of great importance to our citizenry. But underneath it […]

I've heard that for people with summer birthdays, it's all the rage to throw a birthday party for yourself and America's 250th at the same time... I'm going to spend the evening of my birthday reflecting on the idea of America, whether we still really believe in it, and how we are doing 250 years […]