Corrosive Times

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Presidential Plea

“What we’re seeing right now does corrode our democracy and our society. When our elected officials and political campaigns become entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis; when it doesn’t matter what is true and what’s not, that makes it all but impossible for us to make decisions on behalf of future generations.”

“Real people depend on you to uncover the truth.”

—Barack Obama, addressing journalists at annual Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. Greg Jaffe, “Obama calls for more facts, fewer insults in speech to journalists,” The Washington Post, March 28, 2016

• Editorial Comment: What about the other people?


PeezPix by Ted Pease

The callas are in bloom 









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