Four votes stood between this country and the bridges, broadband, and
bus depots we've been promised for a decade. Here is the receipt for
what we paid in deadlock — and who signed it.
MC
By Marisol Chen
Published this morning · 6 minute read
Four votes. That is the entire distance between the country we were
promised in 2021 and the one we actually got. Four senators, in a
chamber of one hundred, decided on Tuesday afternoon that the bridges
could keep rusting and the broadband could keep buffering…
My brother-in-law Greg has informed our family group chat that he
has "done his research" and now holds views about the 2026 election
that I find concerning, factually inventive, and embarrassing in
front of the children… — Cornered in Cleveland
Dear Cornered, there is a passage in Proverbs about answering a fool
according to his folly, and another, on the very next page, about
not answering a fool according to his folly. Scripture, in
its wisdom, anticipated Greg…
An unsolicited dispatch from Sen. Brent Honeycutt (R— Place), who
continues to file columns despite repeated requests from this
newspaper that he stop.
Folks, I want to address something head-on, the way my granddaddy
taught me, which was to address things head-on, except for the things
you address sideways, of which there are several…
— Continued —
The Concerned Citizen · Letters from the Back Fence
I was at the post office on Thursday and the line was long, which is
fine. I am not someone who minds a line. A line is a place where you
can think. What I do mind is when the line is long for no reason
that anyone in the building seems prepared to explain…