View From Here: Purpose of Education

View From Here: Purpose of Education: Age old discussions focused on the purpose for education. These discussions still rage. You’d think by now mankind would understand the ...

View From Here: State of the Union?

View From Here: State of the Union?: Well, the white house will claim many accomplishments. Here are a few of them and what they are worth. Most are worth nothing. So ‘accom...

View From Here: What to Believe

View From Here: What to Believe: As a friend passed me the best selling book, “Fire and Fury” about the trump white house, another friend asked, “how can you know what’s...

View From Here: Bubble Markets

View From Here: Bubble Markets: People think I’m liberal. I don’t fully earn that label. I am conservative about many things, and liberal minded (open, exploring, ready...

View From Here: New Political Blocs

View From Here: New Political Blocs: Envisioning a new way of wielding power among Americans for better outcome achievement, here are the blocs of people I think will be reliabl...

View From Here: New Political Blocs

View From Here: New Political Blocs: Envisioning a new way of wielding power among Americans for better outcome achievement, here are the blocs of people I think will be reliabl...

View From Here: Alternative to Blame

View From Here: Alternative to Blame: Gridlock has been a common feature of American politics since the 1990’s. Probably before, but the real gridlock leading to nothing gett...

View From Here: Shutdown Watch

View From Here: Shutdown Watch: So, the white house claims the federal government shutdown is the Schumer Shutdown. Well, it’s not. The dealmaker president is at it aga...

View From Here: Shutdown or Not

View From Here: Shutdown or Not: I wrote this on Friday, January 19 th . I revised it today, January 20th when I learned the US government did shut down due to inept dea...

View From Here: Fixing Immigration

View From Here: Fixing Immigration: Our history is one thing. Our bloodlines another. None of us are pure American other than Native American Indians. That’s it. Period. Di...

View From Here: Saying Another Goodbye

View From Here: Saying Another Goodbye: Memorial service last Saturday afternoon for Judy Keeney (April, 1944 to November, 2017). She and husband Ed Sommer had been members of ...

View From Here: Opposing Views

View From Here: Opposing Views: The middle east. Palestinian and Israeli discussion points. Debate points? Heated argument points? No points? In the end the latter is a...

View From Here: Getting Away with Doing Nothing

View From Here: Getting Away with Doing Nothing: Boy am I busy! And you as well!   I know, I know. You say that every day, week after week, month after month. I as well say similar thin...

View From Here: Psst! I’ve Got a Secret

View From Here: Psst! I’ve Got a Secret: Sort of a secret. For continuing readers, it’s not much of a secret. Here it is: I write this blog to clear my mind of ideas that clog u...

View From Here: Gas Pump Prices?

View From Here: Gas Pump Prices?: We are fortunate in our neighborhood. Two new gas stations from large independents (Thornton’s and Speedway) are waging a price war agai...

View From Here: Request for Proposal

View From Here: Request for Proposal: If you are in business - or government - you have heard this term – ‘request for proposal’. When a firm wants to buy a service or produc...

View From Here: Building the Agenda

View From Here: Building the Agenda: The agenda is the list of things, the topics, you think we should be thinking about and doing something about. Here’s a short list I thi...

View From Here: Ignoring the White House Noise

View From Here: Ignoring the White House Noise: Yes, it is time to turn off the noise machine of the donald. His entire communication style is to deny, mislead, tweet, disguise, and di...

View From Here: NIMBY - Treating Teen Drug Addicts

View From Here: NIMBY - Treating Teen Drug Addicts: I didn’t create a drug addict. I’m not a drug addict. I’ve been asked to volunteer my efforts and care to helping teen drug addicts. And...

View From Here: Finding a Leader for Democrats

View From Here: Finding a Leader for Democrats: Age has something to do with selecting a political leader. We want someone who won’t die in office due to ill health or old age. There h...

View From Here: Ramifications of Political Falsehoods

View From Here: Ramifications of Political Falsehoods: When the truth is skewed, misreported or baldly misrepresented, it is difficult to determine what is the truth and what is not. That is ...

View From Here: Mental Health Issues

View From Here: Mental Health Issues: It does not take a scientist, a psychic or rocket scientist to know that mental health problems plague America. Our nation is most likel...

View From Here: New Year’s Resolutions

View From Here: New Year’s Resolutions: I can’t say I’ve been very good at making resolutions. Certainly, I have not been good at keeping the ones I made! I suppose I’m not alo...

View From Here: Happy New Year!

View From Here: Happy New Year!: May this be truly a happier new year than 2017. The past year has been a real poop. In health, finances, future outlook and political ou...