I know how much most of us long to keep things the way they were, but I’ve come to realize that such a belief makes little sense. The world is in constant change, and if I didn’t know that for certain, I do now after spending five days in Las Vegas.For almost two decades, I […]
Conservatives have long insisted that less government is better. They often talk about wanting Uncle Sam out of our private lives. They want Americans free to live life on their terms. Unless that American is a woman. Oh yes, conservatives want to control a woman’s womb. They argue that abortion isn’t a freedom; it’s a […]
I wish I didn’t have to pay a high price for living in an all-Black neighborhood. Walk through Glenville, and you will find not a single Starbuck or a Smoothie King. A sit-down restaurant like the Olive Garden or Applebee’s sounds like a winner, right? But not on the East Side of the city. I […]
I don’t know how we can call this good news, but it’s news, nonetheless. The population on earth hit eight-billion people last November — eight billion. In April, if didn’t happen earlier, China handed the baton to India as the most-populous country on the planet. Relatively speaking, the United States has grown at a turtle’s […]
Few things are worse than a white elephant, particularly when the elephant comes with a $6.3 million price on its backside.That is the initial money that went into League Park, a historic ballpark in the heart of a Black neighborhood.League Park spent almost 40 years in decline, and it might have collapsed altogether were it […]
Almost a score of judicial positions are on the November ballot in Cleveland, and most of the races see incumbents go unopposed. Now, I can’t force people to run for public office, although I regret I can’t. I just wish judges had competition, because most who serve on the bench don’t deserve what amounts to […]
You get the government you deserve, and in America, we certainly got the one we deserved when the egomaniacal Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Yet no matter how conservatives looked at Trump and his kaleidoscopic policies, they had to spot the dastard in him, even as they refused to acknowledge it publicly. For […]
I pay a high price for living in an all-Black neighborhood. Walk through it, and you will find no Starbuck or Jamba Juice. A sit-down restaurant like the Olive Garden sounds like a winner, but not on the East Side of Cleveland.I don’t have to reiterate the challenges of my getting high-speed internet or of […]
I watched my Spectrum bill inch closer and closer to $200. The blotted bill bothered me, because it seemed as if I was paying more for less. I decided to drop Apple TV, though I continued to pay for the Apple device.In April 2020, I paid $146.05, which included $9.99 for a landline. I cut […]
I’m going to mention a few names that most of you haven’t heard of. I’ll start with Curtis Flowers, and now I roll more names your way: Marcus Wiggins, Ralph Wright Jr., Isaiah McCoy, Ricky Davis, Kwame Ajamu, Bo Cochran, Anthony Ray Hinton, Walter McMillan … All were innocent men — Black men whom […]