WASHINGTON 鈥� There is national incredulity, exhaustion, embarrassment, disgust and fatalism about the political parties鈥� inability to generate palatable presidential choices. Tim Scott could alter this with a trifecta of statesmanlike acts: withdrawing from the competition for the ...
Leadership is a topic that touches boundaries far beyond any particular industry, profession, or field of interest. This past year, I ended up spending about an hour each evening watching different attorney-oriented television series, like 鈥淏oston Legal鈥� and 鈥淭he Practice.鈥� ...
Once again, the great hue and cry in quarters both governmental and political has it that conducting a property reassessment in Allegheny County would be an immorality bordering on a public policy atrocity that would only serve to gouge taxpayers and even retard economic growth.But the reality ...
Teachers have become easy prey for criticism among those claiming today鈥檚 classrooms represent a liberal free-for-all.Much of that noise comes from those who digest an overabundance of division from their media of choice, but haven鈥檛 set foot in a classroom in years.There is no doubt, ...
The CEO of British car company once complained in my earshot that his fancy jeweled Swiss watch always seemed to run a little behind. No one could fix it. And so, when he met the executive of a Swiss watch company at a conference in Geneva, he asked for advice. 鈥淚t鈥檚 always five minutes ...
WASHINGTON - Stacy Davis Gates, president of what is, in effect, Chicago鈥檚 government 鈥� the Chicago Teachers Union 鈥� has at last done something helpful. Having denounced school choice as fascist (Mussolini favored it? Who knew?) and, of course, racist (what isn鈥檛?), she has enrolled her ...