Jan 27, 2010 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The internet is the most free form of public expression. Anyone with an opinion can express their First Amendment privilege even if they are not from or in this country. With the internet you can mail to literally millions with the press of a button or...
Jan 13, 2010 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Before there is too much rejoicing about the apparent upcoming passage by the state legislature for property tax caps allowing voters in November to cast their ballot to put the caps into the state constitution, it would be good to know what impact...
Jan 6, 2010 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A new decade has begun and the question is will it lead to consistency or more confusion. Just ten years—seemingly short but seemingly a lifetime ago—we worried and fretted what would happen when we left the previous century for Y2K. Computer gurus...
Dec 23, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Youngsters long anticipate the arrival of Christmas. And so did the ancient children of God. Prophesy told them of a coming Messiah. Some thought he was a political savior: the Jewish people were looking for a leader with the courage to drive the Roman...
Dec 16, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Remember back during the elections of 1990’s when we were bombarded with the idea that government welfare needed to be cut and private charities needed to be encouraged to pick up the slack. As a result newly elected government officials set about the...
Dec 9, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The Times is quietly noting an anniversary this week. It was at this time in 1980—and it does cause me some minor distress to say that was 29 years ago—that the newspaper you are reading was inaugurated. The first week of December 1980, the Scott...
