9.30 Robert Shapiro in The Washington Post: Using the White House’s preferred data, average earnings rose from $894.06 in January 2017 to $937.02 in August 2018. That suggests impressive gains of $42.96 weekly over the 20-month period and $30.02 weekly over the past year. But what about median earnings rather than average earnings — that …
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Gradually, in 1964 and 1965, my onsetting adolescence, arriving amid a changing world, new influences and interests came into my life.Some really stuck: Marvel comics, so bold and imaginative; The Man from UNCLE, so exotic and seemingly sophisticated; and Top 40 radio, most especially the performers of the folk rock genre, most particularly Simon & …
9.21 Paul Simon at Madison Square Garden 9.19 From Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time, by Ian O’Connor: “One New England assistant said the general feeling among staff members around that time wasn’t that Belichick‘s system could make Super Bowl quarterbacks out of all 32 NFL starters. ‘But if you …
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Governor Cuomo officially opened the Gov. Mario Cuomo Bridge, which crosses the Hudson between Westchester and Rockland counties. Named for his father, the bridge replaces the Tappan Zee bridge. The Governor was joined on the dias by Hillary Rodham Clinton
9.6 Washington Post: Trump reacted to the column with “volcanic” anger and was “absolutely livid” over what he considered a treasonous act of disloyalty and told confidants he suspects the official works on national security issues or in the Justice Department. . . .The phrase “The sleeper cells have awoken” circulated on text messages among …
8.31 Henry Eyring: “When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble: you will be right more than half the time.” 8.28 John McCain in The Restless Wave: The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and …
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Just short of his 80th birthday, the great Gordon Lightfoot appeared at the Paramount theater in Peekskill on Sunday, August 12. Having battled various illnesses for the better part of a decade, Lightfoot was a gaunt but cheerful presence. The robust baritone was gone; Lightfoot sang in a thin voice, but on key, and with …
8.16 Paul Waldman in the Post: “The problem of inequality didn’t start with Trump. He has, however, done everything he can to make it worse. He gave a gargantuan tax break to the wealthy and corporations; the latter took that tax break and spent it on stock buybacks, which has the effect of boosting stock …
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Or around in it, to be precise. A very rainy day in a very rainy stretch cleared just enough for Paul and Anne and Greg and Susan and Ginny and I to take a boat ride on the Hudson. I had hoped teh captain would take us up as far as Cold Spring, but because …
7.28 Bryn Stole in the Times: “in the last decade or so, the crowds at large scale re-enactments have dwindled. Longtime hobbyists are aging out and retiring — soldiers in their 50s and 60s filled much of the camp at Gettysburg — and younger people aren’t marching onto mock battlefields in nearly the same numbers. …