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The Extreme Court

June 26, 2022

The Supreme Liars of the Extreme Court uite simply, everyone of the members of the court that voted to overturn Roe v Wade lied. They lied to get their jobs. Every senator except Susan Collins knew they were lying. They put the job above the majority of “We the People.” Political bias was involved. Ignorance […]

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Who Cares?

November 12, 2020

do. Born in Dayton, Tennessee, raised in Chattanooga, spending 20 years traveling the globe, now in Nashville, why would I care about what happens in Georgia? Because I lived long enough in a suburb of Atlanta to serve as commissioner of public works, commissioner of emergency services (fire, police and rescue), councilman, mayor pro tem […]

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Calling Out the Coward

July 22, 2020

he picture above was painted on a building near Fisk University, in Nashville. It was painted by my late step-son, Brad Wells. It is of W.E.B. DeBois. DuBois was graduated from Fisk and went on to become the first Black to earn a doctorate at Harvard. He was the only Black among the founders of […]

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Not The Only One

June 4, 2014

f London Bridge falls, it likely will have lots of company. Much of our infrastructure is approaching the ripe old age of eighty. How bad is it? They tell us that 63,000 bridges are structurally unsound. How are we supposed to get from here to there? At least we have a number . . . […]

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