Heating & Lighting
“I am
either in the heating business or the lighting business. Every column or
blog has to either turn on a lightbulb in your reader’s head — illuminate an
issue in a way that will inspire them to look at it anew — or stoke an emotion in
your reader’s heart that prompts them to feel or act more intensely or
differently about an issue. The ideal column does both.”
—Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer-winning columnist and
author of Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, 2016 (Thanks to alert WORDster
Alan Kania)
• Editorial Comment: Union rates?
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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