A little bit of everything
Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Economics. Leave a comment or feel free to send him an email to [email protected].
Joe Biden is 81 and will be 86 at the end of a second term if he’s re-elected. I hope he lives forever, but that’s not going to happen. As a rule, the older you get, the less sharp your brain and the more subject you are to strokes, heart failure and other bad stuff.
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I want to save the earth as much as the next guy. Maybe more. And yet, when it came time for me to buy a new car last fall, I bought a gasoline-powered one – after conducting an exhaustive survey of all-electric car options out there.
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Yes, we all know that the expression is actually “Go big or go home.” Either way, it applies to the thirteen candidates running to be the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor of Baltimore.
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Donald Trump is challenging Joe Biden to debate. To quote from one of his Truth Social posts, “It is important
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We all know that political contributions, the large dollar kind, influence who we elect and what they do after they’re
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Yes, there is a better-than-even chance that Donald Trump is going to declare bankruptcy – and then blame it on the Democrats of course. I can hear him now… “Crooked Joe and his Justice Department henchmen left me no choice!” he will shout at his rallies.
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One of the reasons voter turnouts are poor, particularly for primary elections, is that too many people believe that their votes don’t count, and that they don’t make any real difference. For the most part, they’re right. Generally speaking, but not this time.
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I respect Joe Biden, but he’s too old and isn’t getting any younger. His traditional, decades-old concept of bipartisan collaboration across the aisles of the House and Senate is ridiculously outdated. At this stage in his political career, Joe needs to be advising our government, not running it.
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Travis and Taylor are in love. Their personal and professional lives are wonderful. She could have made a sometimes unpleasant, but otherwise naturally occurring noise when he introduced her to his parents and it wouldn’t have made any difference.
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I’m going to handicap the Mayor’s race for you. It’s going to be one of the two candidates pictured above. You can thank me later. Baltimore needs and deserves so much more, but better candidates just aren’t willing to run.
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