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This is a blog.  You, Dear Readers, are viewing this online either on the blog’s home site or on the AOL Patch System.  You are comfortable online and this is probably only one of several blogs that you read on … Continue reading →

  The car was careening down the hill.  The driver, desperate to stop, never touched the brake pedal.  Instead, he grabbed the emergency parking lever with both hands and violently pulled it towards himself.  It snapped off!  The car picked … Continue reading →

Gary may be a federal employee.  He might be the employee of a federal contractor.  I can’t say.  We were having our third conversation as he tried to solve the ongoing problems with the CMS Enterprise Portal, a multi-purpose site … Continue reading →

I have a quick question for the business owners in the audience – How’s it going?  Been busy?  Terrific.  I hate to bother you, but the U.S. Government has another job for you.  You are going to help steer Americans … Continue reading →

It was Chicken Cordon Bleu prepared by a lifelong vegetarian.  It was a doctoral thesis that had been assigned to an illiterate.  It was how I spent four hours and ten minutes Saturday evening.  It was the federal government’s online … Continue reading →

There was a time when children would ask a parent or a teacher how to spell a particular word.  The adult would inevitably send us to the dictionary.  This would often prove to be a lesson in self-reliance, problem solving, … Continue reading →

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969)  The new rates are out!  The new rates are out!  The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported today (won’t be able to say that … Continue reading →

I used to be a hero.  At one point we had quite a few nanny placement services in Greater Cleveland and many of the young women were hired to work in New York.  Most of these agencies referred their clients, … Continue reading →

T.S. Eliot famously wrote that the world would end “not with a bang but a whimper”.  The Obama administration must be Mr. Eliot’s biggest fans.  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law, amid great fanfare, … Continue reading →

Giant Eagle.  Ask a small child where hot dogs come from and he will answer the name of the last place he rode around in a shopping cart.  This is the beginning of a conversation about farms, animals, and possibly … Continue reading →