Missing the Point – Screen time is adversely affecting child development
We need to discontinue advocacy for the use of screens in our public schools and at home until we fully understand the implications for child development.
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Missing the Point
Missing the Point – Be the Mayor of Baltimore
Make your campaign about the lack of progress your opponent has made. Ask the question, trite as it may be, “How are you better off today than you were when Mayor Scott or former Mayor Dixon was first elected?”
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Missing the Point – Still pressing the USPS. Privatizing the Post Office, Part 3
Could it be that the Post Office has changed its policy since the GAO report, fifty-three years ago? That it no longer purchases, maintains and replaces CBUs at its expense? Not even in Columbia?
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Missing the Point – Sign of the times?
I’ve long suspected that we, as a society, are not entirely sure whether we’re coming or going. Now I have
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Missing the Point – Are we going to take the climate crisis seriously, or not?
Facing a climatic existential threat, the cause of which, in the United States, has largely to do with vehicle emissions, we desperately need to convert our national fleet of 280 million vehicles from gasoline to electric power as soon as possible. And our answer to that challenge is a $7,500 tax credit of which only people making $100,000 or more can take full advantage.
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Missing the Point – Flaw in the system. Easy to fix
So, you want to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t get re-elected? The solution is remarkably simple. All Congress needs to do is pass a law that requires that general election Presidential candidates qualify for a TS/SCI security clearance.
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Missing the Point – Problems with Mayor Scott’s Financial Disclosure Filing
Sometimes, writing an op/ed is about offering an opinion. That’s the “op” part. This time, it’s about asking questions. In
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Missing the Point – Driven. Our ‘Type A’ nation obsessed with time
Life consists of a finite amount of time – and there’s the rub. When you’re reading this, check the items
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Missing the Point – Loyalty Pledge? To whom or what exactly?
It used to be that registration, for the first time, as a Republican or Democrat was a fundamental right of passage. What were your parents? How were you raised by them, politically speaking?
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Missing the Point – Trump is toast
Mind you, I’m not saying that the next President won’t be a Republican or that Joe Biden is unbeatable. Just taking off his shirt the other day while enjoying the sand at Rehoboth Beach may have blown his chances for re-election right then and there.
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