Wag the Dog
The opening chapter of “All the King’s Men”—Robert Penn Warren’s masterful 1946 novel about the governorship of Willie Stark, a… Read More
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Monthly Archives: March 2021
Harrisburg: The Unsettled Land
In Harrisburg, it seems, nothing is ever settled. The financial crisis has gone on, arguably, for a decade. The sale… Read More
In Case of Emergency
I have pills on my desk. Four pills. They’re behind a scrim of foil, like Dentyne Ice, at the bottom… Read More
Whose Woods These Are
Tuesday night, around 7 p.m., a group of two dozen or so gathered outside the Benjamin Olewine III Nature Center… Read More
Out of Time: Why Dan Miller Really Lost
As someone who has covered local elections for many years, I tend to chuckle when a candidate blames his opponent… Read More
Closing the Books
Monday afternoon, at a podium in the garden of his 2nd Street home, Dan Miller announced he would not… Read More
FitCircuit Folly: Going where few exercisers have gone before.
On a beautiful summer day, Riverfront Park is a busy, noisy place. Walkers compete with runners who compete with cyclists… Read More
Elections Matter? Not for Some in Harrisburg
Who wants to be mayor of a town of 49,500 people? Evidently, everyone. If memory serves, Harrisburg had an election… Read More