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Trump and Wallace

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At the height of the 1968 presidential campaign, Douglas Kiker, a reporter for NBC, noted that George Wallace’s third-party effort was catching fire. Kiker, a Southerner, noted that the Alabama Governor was gaining traction in the North using racism as the engine of his effort. Kiker stated, “All is as if somewhere sometime a while back George Wallace had been awakened by a white blinding vision: they all hate black people, all of them, Great God! That’s it! They’re all Southern! The whole United States is Southern”. This was September of 1968, when Wallace, whose most famous ...

Keeping the new hire: Helping employees stay

Columnists

Last week we talked about how inexperience impacts your organization. The next question becomes just as important: What are you doing to help those new employees stay long enough to become experienced? The research is clear and has been for decades: When looking at employee departures, the first year is when about 30% take place — especially in work areas in which the new hire works with different people. This is very true in healthcare and hospitality.  Why is that? It is because coworkers have a huge impact on how a person feels about their job. It’s not because you made a ...

Happy Easter

Editorials

For Christians, Sunday is the holiest day of the year — Easter. It is a day of celebration; commemorating the resurrection of the Son. For millennia, this season has also been a time to celebrate the return of the sun, when our minds are on a kind of rebirth and living again in the light. Easter brings us joy, yes. It also teaches us about sacrifice and love; and gives us a brightly colored reminder that we are supposed to love one another, too. For many, it is a day of dressing up, perhaps attending church, having a meal with family and then giving in to modern traditions ...

Reader is in favor of electric cars

Letters to the Editor

As communities across the country grapple with rising fuel costs, air pollution, and the growing impacts of Global Warming, one solution is becoming increasingly clear; the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Electric cars offer a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles. By producing zero tailpipe emissions, they reduce air pollution and improve public health, especially in urban areas where smog and poor air quality disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. When you factor in that EVs cost roughly 40% less to fuel, and with fewer moving ...

‘You don’t own me’

Columnists

Politicians tax what we earn, regulate what we build and often decide what we can do with our bodies and our money. I like to think I own myself. But politicians increasingly act as if they do. “People should not have power over other people’s lives,” says Timothy Sandefur, author of the book “You Don’t Own Me.” In my latest video, Sandefur challenges the attitude that “freedom belongs to the government and it can parcel it out to us.” Sandefur starts with building permits. “A building permit really says, you’re not allowed to build on your own property ...

Trump and war in Iran: What’s the plan?

Columnists

When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative on Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls “the weave.” What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic. While spinning his tapestry of soundbites, the wartime president declared that the Iranians “have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, for — I’m so sorry, such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say he ‘accidentally said’ (chuckle), now there’s no accidents with me. Not too many. ...