Woolgathering With Mike

As both of my regular readers know, the question of how best to deal with the huge numbers of people who have illegally entered the United States in recent years is both contentions and highly divisive.

Because I know relatively little about the 1950s, a gap in my knowledge base but probably not for either of my two regular readers, I’m currently absorbed in a book entitled “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the world in the 1950s” by William I. Hitchcock.

My sister in Australia occasionally and very kindly sends me copies of professionally written articles in national publications that she reads to (1) help educate me (I’d never heard of the cardboard billionaire dual US/Australian citizen Anthony Pratt before), (2) inform me (motoring writer Stephen Corby recently test drove the the Chinese-made Leapmotor C10 EV and described it as “beyond awful”), and (3) help my fledgling writing career in the Kiowa County Independent so that one of my two regular readers doesn’t jump ship.

During the first half of the 1990s, I taught many adult-ed classes to Lawrence Chamber of Commerce members. When helping teach small business owners understand how best to make use of the internet, the prevailing wisdom even back in those days was that only around half of what was on the world wide web (does anyone call it that any more?) was accurate / true.

A recent article in the once reputable New York Times (NYT) had the headline “A Year After USAID’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss”.

The forecast this morning referenced the possibility of sprinkles with a thirty percent chance of fifty mile per hour wind gusts, which sounded more like a prediction of what might happen at a children’s birthday party than a weather report, but kudos to the National Weather Service for coming up with a different way of saying it is, yet again, going to be dry and windy out here today.

This year hasn’t really started off very well. At least not yet.

By the time I finished my final year at school, I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up.

Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released detailed data on over 14 million criminal offenses for 2024 reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies.

Unless you have children currently or recently enrolled in a public high school, you may not be aware that Colorado both allows and actively encourages high school students to register to vote before they turn eighteen.

The Democratic Party swept to power in Colorado in the 2018 general election (the first time since 1936) under the guise of being a progressive party with the best interests of all Coloradans at heart.

tThere has been a lot of talk about tariffs over the last few months so today I’m bravely hoping to give both my readers some background that could be useful to know as you embark on intellectually weighty discussions around outdoor barbecue pits this summer.

When I think back on all my years at school and university, I sadly remember and can name just a small handful of teachers who positively impacted the person I became.

I’m someone who likes patterns. No not knitting patters.

Most people, especially politicians, don’t realize that if it wasn’t for entrepreneurs and small business owners creating and launching new firms each year, and hiring employees to staff those firms, the United States would be a shadow of its current self.

Last week’s cold weather and frigid temperatures were concentrated east of the Rockies but impacted ALL of the mainland United States except for the far western coastline and central/southern Florida.