Among the issues holding up passage of a second federal COVID-19 relief package is whether additional financial assistance to individuals should come in the form of extended unemployment benefits to approximately 13.5 million displaced workers or a second round of stimulus checks similar to the $1,200 per adult and child in round one. On … Read more
BLOGGER’S NOTE: If length were not an issue, today’s post would have been, “Everything I Needed to Know about Women Voters in 2020, I Learned from Chuck E. Cheese.” Wednesday’s ABC/Washington Post poll results in Michigan and Wisconsin affirm what may be the defining difference between this year’s election and 2016, a gender gap … Read more
DISCLAIMER: Nothing in the post suggests any of us can rest on our laurels. Post card writers need to keep writing. Intersection flag-wavers need to keep waving their flags. Homeowners need to keep putting up Biden/Harris signs. And community based groups of Democrats, Republicans and independents like our “Amelia Island Good Troublemakers” need to keep … Read more
You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You’re watching people who aren’t actors, put into situations created by people who aren’t writers and they’re second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it’s not. And you … Read more
The phrase “skin in the game” was coined by none other than Warren Buffet based on his belief business owners and executives should have a significant personal stake in the outcome of the ventures they run. It is a lesson taught in every entrepreneurship class. And, if you are a regular Shark Tank viewer, … Read more