Civility Trumped by Partisanship in Shutdown

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            New Orleans      In the US, we’ve had governmental shutdowns over recent years from time to time.  Most of them have been relatively short.  Services were disrupted.  Federal workers were furloughed.  When it was over, they received their back pay, and things went back to normal.  During the interim, the government often maintained crucial …

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Accusations Hurt as Much as Convictions

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            Marble Falls       Driving back and forth to Little Rock for meetings of the KABF board and the monthly meeting of our emerging climate coalition, Arkansas Grassroots United, I listened to an audiobook of Anne Appelbaum called Autocracy, Inc.  As an American journalist and Polish citizen, who is admittedly center-right, as she refers to …

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