May 18, 2021 | Alan's Letter
Yesterday was Tax Day, when most Americans ante up their fair share to, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, former Justice of the United States Supreme Court said, “pay for a civilized society.” Unfortunately one group of taxpayers–the rich–have figured out how to upend the...
Apr 20, 2021 | Alan's Letter
April 22nd is a very important day: it’s my granddaughter’s eleventh birthday (which is a YO)! It also happens to be Earth Day, a day of pronouncements focused on saving the planet so that my granddaughter and all grandchildren have a healthy earth to call home a...
Apr 6, 2021 | Alan's Letter
Senators Klobuchar and Warren have introduced two seemingly unrelated bills, but they could be, in part, two sides of the same coin (an appropriate cliché here because we’re talking about money). Senator Amy Klobuchar has introduced a bill that provides $50 billion to...
Mar 23, 2021 | Alan's Letter
If you haven’t had matzo (or matzah)–smothered with cream cheese–I highly recommend it. This is one of the world’s great comfort foods, so great that most people will abstain from such ecstasy for most of the year and eat it only over a period of eight days during one...
Mar 9, 2021 | Alan's Letter
Our readership is 0.1% of that of Heather Cox Richardson. That’s not exactly what I had in mind when I say I aspire to be the HCR for the 0.1% class! In her daily letter, which usually arrives around 11pm, she does an extraordinary job of making sense out of the news...
Feb 23, 2021 | Alan's Letter
I recently had a Portlandia moment. For the uninitiated, Portlandia, the tv comedy series that parodied the city’s eccentricities, was one of the two best things to come out of Oregon, the other being my stepson and daughter-in-law’s winery, AtoZ Wineworks. The most...
