View From Here: Entrepreneurialism

View From Here: Entrepreneurialism: Willingness to take a risk to make money is what being an entrepreneur is all about. There is more to it, of course, but for the most par...

View From Here: Oil Economics

View From Here: Oil Economics: The gas pump price collapsed this winter. It was projected to remain low. Then prices jumped 30-cents. Lately they skyrocketed another 50...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) provides another pithy quote for us today: “The largest private sector employer in the United States...

View From Here: Futures Built on Healthy Youth

View From Here: Futures Built on Healthy Youth: For millennia generations have come and gone. Immigrants, emigrants, native born. Babies of love. Babies of hope. Babies without homes, h...

View From Here: Commentary on Recent News

View From Here: Commentary on Recent News: Well, perhaps it is not news, just pieces published for public consumption. Most likely they were designed for such consumption and repre...

View From Here: One Person at a Time

View From Here: One Person at a Time: Can world peace be achieved one person at a time? Who knows the answer to that question when we haven’t tested the hypothesis adequately?...

View From Here: Building Blocks

View From Here: Building Blocks: Stop and think what makes a strong community. Might these elements be present? Neighbors aware of each other and caring about them...

View From Here: Open Agenda

View From Here: Open Agenda: My time is open to new possibilities. Stepping away from the newspaper has freed up my time and attention. The latter is the most importa...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes today’s idea to pursue:             “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of ...

View From Here: The Ages

View From Here: The Ages: I did not post to the blog yesterday. Wednesday was a 'getting ready for a colonoscopy' day. That meant no solid food. Only liqui...

View From Here: Without a Song

View From Here: Without a Song: Sit down at a keyboard or a blank piece of paper. Fill it. Take 20 minutes or so to do so. That’s the assignment. OK. Today not OK. ...

View From Here: Now is the Time

View From Here: Now is the Time: There comes a time when a person knows something has to change. At first what needs changing eludes identification. So much does ne...

View From Here: Taking Step Two

View From Here: Taking Step Two: A lot has happened in the last few months, 6 to 8 weeks specifically.  The happenings are seen as daily events, routines of life. We ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Love this quote:             Economics 101:                         We can’t have a consumer-based economy                       ...

View From Here: Back to Basics

View From Here: Back to Basics:         Lately I’ve written a lot about a local matter. It’s time to return to commenting on issues large and small. Found on the i...

View From Here: Letting Go

View From Here: Letting Go: OK, I quit the newspaper as managing editor. Trouble is I’m a co-founder as well. The legal papers say three of us own equal parts of the...

View From Here: Want a Local Paper?

View From Here: Want a Local Paper?: Several blogs ago I announced my intention to remove myself from the local paper. I said that this decision was caused by the members of ...

Minority-Insight: WARNING!!! Alleged Gay Youth Stoned to Death in Ja...

This is why I would not go to or spend a penny on anything Jamaican.... Restaurants, Food, clothes and music. I've seen the video and it's sickening.



Minority-Insight: WARNING!!! Alleged Gay Youth Stoned to Death in Ja...: A recent video of an alleged homosexual youth was stoned to death in Jamaica was posted on On-the-ground-news (a Jamaican online news) faceb...

View From Here: Being Asked Again

View From Here: Being Asked Again: Yesterday’s blog was a long one. About double the size of my normal posts. But it was the basis of some thoughts I think need to be explo...

View From Here: Being Asked

View From Here: Being Asked: I’m in a recovery program, one of those 12-step ones. It has been very successful for me. I wanted sobriety and peace and got it by follo...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson shared this thought with readers long ago: “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what boo...

View From Here: Solving Problems

View From Here: Solving Problems: Well that’s a big topic! I began writing today’s blog with this one anonymous quote found on the internet: “Sometimes the easiest way...

View From Here: Netanyahu and the GOP

View From Here: Netanyahu and the GOP: Actually today’s topic is foreign affairs in the age of congressional dysfunction . President Obama took the reins at the White House...

View From Here: One of those Days

View From Here: One of those Days: It’s one of those days when too many things are on my mind and yet not one of them seems to have my full, or core, attention! My focus is...

View From Here: Cleaning out Files

View From Here: Cleaning out Files: Alright, so I can’t find something. A little nitty gritty slip of paper with a phone number on it. I know how to replace the number with ...

View From Here: Following Your Path

View From Here: Following Your Path: Was treated to an interesting and engaging sermon yesterday. It was all about following your cross, or bearing your burden. Each of us ha...