A Prayer for Democracy and Its Shared Ethic
The essay advocates defending democracy across cultures, citing Kennedy V Laclav Havel and James Kloppenberg. It argues for liberal principles such as free speech, conscience, media, religion, and elections, plus equality, autonomy, deliberation, and reciprocity, stressing humility before power and an “aristocracy of everyone.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F Kennedy
Vaclav Havel
Congress
James Kloppenberg
Pope Francis
Reinhold Niebuhr
William F. Buckley Jr
Boston
Harvard
Buckley
Benjamin Barber
Tax on Meat and Dairy to Curb Health and Environmental Costs
Reader suggests a tax on meat eggs and dairy to reduce obesity and related diseases. Cites 190 billion annual medical costs and subsidies as waste. Proposes revenue to fund Medicare Medicaid waterways and habitat restoration. argues for policy shift and stricter public health measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Bloom
Benjamin Franklin
Uribe Jankovitch
Ukiah
Political Contacts and Office Addresses in California
A dense compendium lists lawmakers and offices across California. It includes the White House contact for President Trump and Senate and House offices for Kamala Harris Dianne Feinstein Jared Huffman Jim Wood Mike McGuire and others with addresses in Washington Sacramento Ukiah Eureka Santa Rosa and Fort Bragg plus fax numbers and district locations for Mendocino Humboldt Sonoma and Del Norte counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dianne Feinstein
Hart Senate
Washington
D.C
San Francisco
Feinstein
Senate
U.S
Jared Huffman
Longworth
Washington D.C
Ukiah
Low Gap Road
Fort Bragg
N. Franklin St
Eureka
Third St. Suite 1
San Rafael
Jerry Brown
State Capitol
Sacramento
Govnews
California
Jim Wood
P.O
Mendocino
Ukiah Valley Conference Center
del Norte
Trinity Counties
Tide Street
Sonoma
Santa Rosa
10Th Street
Cramento
South School Street
Civic Center Drive
Crescent City
Mason Mall
Mendocino County
Carre Brown
John McCowen
Dan Gjerde
Dan Hamburg
bos@ co.mendocing
Christmas poem critique by Norman Williams and peers
The piece reviews Norman Williams’s A Christmas Song in the Poetry Foundation 2017 edition, contrasting its bleak winter imagery with Frost and Yeats references. It sketches a southerner poet on sabbatical, reflecting on aging, a starving writer ideal, and the moral value of gifts for artists amid urban despair.
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Poetry Foundation
Norman Williams
Bing Crosby
The
Williams
He Williams
Yeats
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Appleton Chapel
Memorial Church
Harvard University
E.J. Dionne
Ejdionne
Washpost.com
Jeff Stahler
Donald Trump
White House
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C
Kamala Harris
Mike McGuire
By Jonathan Middlebrook
T.S. Eliot
Force
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