by Sarah Cowgill | Oct 31, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
“Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” William Shakespeare, in his heyday, penned those words for the ominous play, Macbeth. It was Act IV, Scene 1, where three witch sisters encircle a boiling cast iron cauldron, intoning details of a spell...
by Andrew Moran | Oct 29, 2021 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
Who knew that the terrific 2002 motion picture, Minority Report, would become the basis of a U.S. president’s economic agenda? The concept of pre-crime is nothing new in public policymaking, as it has been entrenched in counter-terrorism efforts for years....
by James Fite | Oct 29, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
The road to passage for the ever-diminishing, multi-trillion-dollar spending bill is “clearer than ever,” according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. An “overwhelming number” of House Democrats support both President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act and the...
by Kelli Ballard | Oct 29, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Law
Former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, was charged on Oct. 28, with a misdemeanor sex offense stemming from allegations that he groped a staffer last year. The summons was filed by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, but some officials have claimed the filing was in...
by Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. | Oct 28, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Race
Before she created the iconic TV series The Wonder Years, Carol Black wrote a movie script 30 years ago that was prescient. It became 1986’s Soul Man, which told the story of a white kid who artificially darkened his skin to appear black enough to qualify for a...