Archive - politics

Talk is Cheap, Move Your Money

My very first bank when I was a teenager was BayBank. A few years later BayBank merged with Bank of Boston, to form BankBoston. So then I was a BankBoston customer. Then came along Fleet Bank, who acquired BankBoston. Then I was a Fleet Bank customer. In 2005 Fleet was merged into Bank of America, [...]

White House Jazz Studio

This is just fantastic. Jazz is perhaps the most American form of music and expression, and a genuine thread in the American cultural fabric. For it to have a place in the White House is a very special, if not overdue, moment in American music and it’s symboblic of democracy in art.

Congressman John Lewis Reflects

Too much history and struggle for me to possibly relate to, nor put into words. Georgia State Representative John Lewis is the last surviving speakers who spoke on the same day that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech. NBC Nightly News has a nice piece that I caught. I [...]