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].
First of all, for those of you who think the results of Monday’s Iowa caucuses are meaningful, don’t worry about it. They’re not. They may have made sense in a small town, in rural Iowa over a hundred years ago, but have long ago outlived their usefulness.
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I’m busy working on a new book and still looking for an agent to rep other books I’ve written for upper elementary and middle school readers.
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As of this writing, the national debt of the United States – money our country has borrowed to cover expenses
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Hey. The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these short-short
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Hello. It’s 2024, barely. So far, so good. As you know, former President Trump is running again for President. The
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Hey. The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these short-short
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Happy New Year, everybody. “Thoughtless bigots, politically self-centered officeholders stoking and playing to the fears of otherwise well-meaning Americans who
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Politically speaking, we’re all going to be okay. As I handicap the current election cycle, there’s a significantly better than fifty-fifty chance that Donald isn’t nominated and, even if he is, that he loses the general election.
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This fifty-fifth installment is called “The Proposal.” It’s a short-short story about two people, a businessman and a waitress, very attracted to each other, but who don’t even know each other’s names.
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t know what to do first? Well, I’m having one of those moments right now having just read about Mayor Brandon Scott’s $3 billion, 15-year proposal for dealing with Baltimore’s vast inventory of vacant properties. “Yikes!”
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