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Caring for Columbus During COVID-19 Oct. 02, 2020
As I drive and run my daily errands in Columbus, Ohio, I have noticed an increase in the number of p... Read More
Why I'm Leaving California Sep. 30, 2020
My family and my company are leaving California. It's heartbreaking. My parents moved to California ... Read More
About the Homeless Apr. 25, 2020
What about them? They have started dying. It would be surprising if they didn't. What hasn't happene... Read More
Stepping Around Human Misery Jan. 31, 2020
Attending a meeting near Union Station in Washington, D.C., requires me to park a few blocks away an... Read More
January 26, 2020 Jan. 26, 2020
Dear Annie: I have three siblings. The youngest sister, "Jess," has always had problems. At 13, she ... Read More
Don't Want to Leave Her in the Cold Jan. 19, 2020
Dear Annie: About a year and a half ago, I met a woman whom I liked very much. She moved in with me ... Read More
Panhandling Bans Can't Survive Legal or Moral Scrutiny Jan. 10, 2020
It was a Christmas greeting tailor-made for a pre-redemption Ebenezer Scrooge. A Facebook post that ... Read More
The Right to Destroy Cities Dec. 18, 2019
This week, the Supreme Court effectively mandated continued legal tolerance for homelessness across ... Read More
Why Crime Is on the Decline Dec. 14, 2019
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." — Aristotle Aristotle had a point, but there ... Read More
He Makes a Village Dec. 10, 2019
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Tyler Merritt has taken the saying "It takes a village to raise a child" a... Read More
A Moral Tale of Two Cities Oct. 08, 2019
The "progressive," so to speak, vision of politics and public life envisions tighter and tighter gov... Read More
'Compassion' and Its Unintended Consequences Oct. 03, 2019
In 2010, Panera Bread launched a nonprofit called Panera Cares, a set of stores around the U.S. oper... Read More
San Francisco Needs to Clean Up Its Act Sep. 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is right about San Francisco. It is, as he said, "a total ... Read More
The Root Cause of Mass Shootings Is the Rage of Alienation Aug. 16, 2019
Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman's motivation. At Columbine High School in Co... Read More
Americans Need More 'Can Do,' Not More Candidates Aug. 01, 2019
Watching the political process play out is more discouraging each election cycle. Even the freshest ... Read More
The Mad Corruptions of Trump Inc. Jul. 17, 2019
Where's Shakespeare when we need him? Only the Bard of Avon could do literary justice to the torture... Read More
DUH: HUD Housing Should Put Americans First May. 22, 2019
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America,... Read More
Liberal Hypocrisy About Sanctuary Cities Apr. 17, 2019
No one can accuse Donald Trump of not being able to grab attention. He lobbed his latest political h... Read More
Whatever Happened to Skid Row? Dec. 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — Homelessness is up for the second year in a row. That is no surprise to me. I spe... Read More
