As the world’s longest current surviving constitutional charter in the history of humankind, America is having a birthday.   Looking back over two centuries, we are citizens from someplace else which makes us all immigrants. Yes, even the Native Americans came over the Bering Strait many centuries before most of our European accentors crossed the…

In 2023, John Hopkins University conducted a study to find the leading cause of death in children in the United States. It was not drownings, or car accidents or even cancer. The number one cause of death in children ages 1-17 in America was firearms. So, as a society that treasures its children, and its…

At his swearing in, the newly elected Mayor of Groveland Keith Keogh made two points quite clear – 1. citizens are the leaders and 2. elected officials are the servants to the citizens. I cannot agree more with him.  Once a year in selected municipalities and every two years in our state and federal jurisdictions,…