Month: January 2015

  • “Snow” Nice to be Back at Work

    I do not envy Mayor De Blasio or Governor Cuomo today. One “failed” snow storm—and they are criticized, castigated, berated, and blamed for making what their fault-finders call a bad decision. As we all know, the city was shut down late Monday and Tuesday—the roads closed and, in an unprecedented move, the subways shut down…

  • Free Community Colleges

    In 2012, in the heat of a presidential election campaign, President Obama made the apparent mistake of wishing out loud that all of our nation’s children could have the opportunity to go to college. That would seem like a fairly innocent, “American as apple pie” kind of wish, but not in this highly divided nation,…