Posts Tagged politics
New Year’s Resolutions
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 31st, 2011
I’m not sure what it is in the human psyche that impels us to see the New Year as a new start–and to make resolutions to behave in certain ways, to turn over new leaves, to focus–yet again!–on self-improvement. But whatever the reason, most of us do take this opportunity to do some navel-gazing, followed [...]
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I Don’t Get It
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 8th, 2011
There’s a pretty robust public debate–in which I’ve engaged–about the refusal of congressional Republicans to even consider raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. That debate has centered around the practicality and morality of their position: practically, government needs the revenue that would be raised by what would historically be considered a very minimal raise in [...]
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Harder than It Looks
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on June 29th, 2011
This morning, an acquaintance told me he’d recently been on the downtown Canal, and immediately thought of this post, in which I had bemoaned the city’s neglect of this important urban amenity. He was appalled–as we all should be. That brief conversation made me ponder the current state of affairs in Indianapolis, and the importance–and [...]
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Bad Monkey
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on October 24th, 2010
I’m writing this before the November 2d elections, knowing that it won’t see print until the election results are known. The timing won’t keep me from making a prediction: voters will reward sleazy tactics, outright liars and buffoons of all political persuasions. That’s because the election season that will (mercifully) be over when you read [...]
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on October 16th, 2010
Dickens’ classic book “A Tale of Two Cities” begins, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” That’s a pretty apt description of the world Americans inhabit right now. On the plus side, advances in transportation and communication allow us to travel the globe and connect with others in ways our [...]
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