By Elmer Ploetz Jim Kinsella should be remembered. I write that as I look for the Cape Cod Review online tonight. It’s a day after my friend died, and his final project seems to have evaporated into the digital ether. It’s too bad because it may just have been the project closest of any to…
Don’t be afraid. That’s it, really. You don’t need to be afraid of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932 The conservative media…
I wish I could say I was surprised by what happened Thursday night in Buffalo. That’s when the Buffalo Police riot squad shoved a 75-year-old activist and he fell backward, hitting his head and bleeding onto the pavement. I even feel a degree of sympathy for the police. They were doing what they thought they…
It hit like a punch to the gut. Warren Buffett is selling The Buffalo, along with 30 other newspapers, to Lee Enterprises. I guess I’m not surprised, but it’s still stunning. The Buffalo News was one of the last outposts for high-quality regional journalism in the nation. It had taken its body blows, but it…
Every year I observe that Music Is Art, the great arts festival Robby Takac and his army of volunteers throw every fall, is a gathering of the tribes — for me, that means my friends in the music scene. And it’s still true. In addition to being a great place to catch music and all…