My mom spent her last days in pain morphine and fentanyl never conquered, flat on her back in a rented hospital bed. Until her mind failed her a couple of years back Patricia Ann Harvey Koenen went to church every Read More …
Category: Issues
Community Issues
Cheap Beer?
Our used car selling Governor Mickey signed good old 1041, dropping the excise tax on American brewed beer by 67%, down to about 2¢ a gallon.
Mixed-Use For Those People
Housing subsidies for developers to build affordable housing? On paper many of these mixed-use places are affordable housing thanks to fuzzy math. Subsidies for really affordable housing? That’s communism here and now.
Badgering Seniors
As many of you know, my 90-year-old mom receives hospice services in her memory care facility. I handle her mail. This week’s load included a formal, oversized envelope from her Pharmacy Benefit Manager… ‘You are wasting your money. You are making Read More …
What Do You See?
Coming home after a dinner with friends last night I saw a young man on the side of the interstate trying, hard, to get into a small white car. That sucks, I thought, the guy got himself locked out of Read More …
TACO Lettuce
If you made the same pay for arresting a working dad in a hearing room as you did for charging a gang of assault rifle wielding Latinos meth dealers, well, wouldn’t you want to make the lay-up rather than the half court shot?