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As we approach the close of November, the breath of winter’s crisp night crystalizes, and a post-pandemic parliament looms like sinkhole waiting for unsuspecting traffic. All those free lunches must now find a benefactor other than my unborn grandchildren...

Good afternoon, Some questions that have been looming this year have included: “I’m feeling dizzy at these heights. Should we get off this balloon, or maybe at least hover closer to the ground?” And; “Who’s that lady sitting on that cloud over there putting...

Good afternoon, Another gloriously sunny fall day in the central interior, as markets continue to stutter upward, despite political wrangling. In this week's issue of Global Insights: Fiscal Policy Progress – Congress looks poised to pass a combination...

Good afternoon, Stuff my dad would have brought home in a tabloid… in the 70’s: With apologies – the kids are gone, and I’m all backed-up with dad jokes. It’s reported that sometime in the middle-ages a nun in a French convent began meowing one day for...

Go Boldly This week, the man best known as Captain James T. Kirk joined a small crew and boldly went to the sky inside a really and truly spaceship. The privately built, New Shepard spacecraft took the 90 year old William Shatner AKA “Geezer-pants,” over...

The leaves -- those bright, glorious hangers-on -- are making their way toward composting dirt, our potatoes are harvested, and our tomatoes are salsa for another day. The fall pause in stock values has… well, paused, for the week at least. Meanwhile...

Happy election day. At the final whistle of my first official soccer game, the goaltender on my own team must have felt threatened by the new kid. He stormed over, unprovoked, and tried to bump me to the ground, announcing: “I knocked the wind out a guy...