John E. Riutta
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Through a strange twist of fate I recently found myself in the middle of a large gardening industry trade show where I, to my utter amazement, came face to face with the reality of one of our nation’s largest illegal cash crops: Cannabis
Continue Reading →While many (including yours truly), in a fit of being fed-up with business, politics, or the world in general, often fall back upon the famous line from the 1976 movie “Network,” “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” to express their feelings, I have recently switched to a different cinematic reference I order to better convey how I feel about the pig-headed debt ceiling impasse in which our alleged leaders in Washington now find themselves.
Continue Reading →There is a basic logic to the idea that a person’s job performance should be judged by its outcome. However as a former classroom teacher, I know all too well just how different some key aspects of teaching are from just about every other job.
Continue Reading →Every Independence Day, I like to stop and give thought to the words that helped give birth to our nation. Among the most important of these, as well as the most poetic, are of course those found in the Preamble to the Constitution.
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