I’ll readily admit that I don’t know every detail of the “negotiations” happening between Maryland government and the commercial watermen who depend on the Chesapeake Bay for their livelihood. But having lived in Maryland for over 30 years and witnessed firsthand the continued decline of the Bay and its once-abundant wildlife, you don’t have to […]

Latin immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, are leaving the country or moving around within the U.S. in increasing numbers of late, and it has nothing to do with border patrols, fence-building and immigration legislation. Asked why they’re leaving, many note that the type of available work that made the U.S. so […]

We are now comfortably into December and the holiday season is in full swing. Despite this, I can’t help but feel as though it is still sometime in mid-October and I can’t seem to figure out where the time has gone. Thanksgiving was a blur and Halloween feels more like Halloween circa 2004. That said, […]

Thanksgiving will be celebrated on Thursday, November 16, 2006. While that day will offer various meanings for those who honor it as well as those who don’t, it will have one undeniable meaning for everyone living in the United States. Thanksgiving, as it does every year, represents the official beginning of the consumer-driven Holiday Season. […]