Posted May 16, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Aaron Salter Jr., 55, was on duty at the security job that supplemented his retirement income. Ruth Whitfield, 86, was buying groceries. Celestine Chaney, 65, stopped in for strawberries for [...]
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Posted May 09, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Irony has been so deep in recent days that we shouldn’t be surprised if people start walking around with their chore boots on or with the cuffs on their pants [...]
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Posted May 02, 2022in Stray Thoughts
The legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once observed, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”Brandeis was not talking about everyday cleaning around the home. He was [...]
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Posted April 29, 2022in Stray Thoughts
A common refrain from Democrats during Donald Trump’s years in the presidency was that he was undermining public trust and confidence in our courts with his talk of judges being [...]
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Posted April 29, 2022in Stray Thoughts
I’m confused. Some of our political leaders seemed to be talking out of both sides of their mouths about why it is wrong for public school employees to engage in [...]
Read More →By Randy Evans This is one of those times when people who have little appetite for politics need to pay attention — because a big change is coming that many [...]
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Posted April 06, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Des Moines Superintendent Thomas Ahart has been a lightning rod during the past three years over the way Iowa’s public schools have responded to the COVID pandemic. Ahart announced in [...]
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Posted March 28, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Through history, some political leaders have been outstanding orators. Boy, could they talk. They knew how to mobilize and move people with their words. Think of Franklin Roosevelt and, [...]
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Posted March 14, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Many years ago, I sat at the kitchen table of a pots-n-pans salesman from Pleasant Valley. We didn’t talk about cookware. He was laying out with lots of precision why [...]
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Posted March 07, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Des Moines Superintendent Thomas Ahart has been a lightning rod during the past three years over the way Iowa’s public schools have responded to the Covid pandemic. Ahart announced last [...]
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