December 23, 2020 Pearl River     It’s hard to describe the pleasure we feel when we can take ourselves out of this world, but it’s real, and it’s special. It was wonderful that “appointment viewing,” as the television critics term some shows, actually involved the vast universe above us, as we searched the southwestern sky for …

December 22, 2020 Pearl River     Ahhh…it’s the end of the year when sugarplums are dancing in dreams of Congressional representatives in both houses and on all sides of the aisle. It may have taken seven months for a skinny stimulus bill to pass and extending funding for the government just must be a last-minute deal. …

December 21, 2020 Pearl River Congress passed a skinny stimulus bill for $900 billion to win the “better than nothing” award for 2020. Whoopee! The bill does promise a bit of cash for everyone in the by and by, and that’s good. Legislators snuck in a piece that bars surprise medical bills, which is also …