I much prefer policy to politics, but if you don’t get the politics right, you don’t get a chance to do policy. President Biden was not my first choice to be the Democratic nominee in 2020, but Democratic voters picked him primarily because he was the most likely candidate to beat ...
In my numerous leadership roles, I’ve worked with many people who are bottom-line-oriented folks. They are the take-no-prisoners kind of people we’ve all been exposed to. Consider this scenario: “What does this diagnosis mean?” asks the patient. “It means you’re gonna ...
Shortly after Memorial Day, we joined two other couples for a week at a rented house on the island of Chincoteague, Va. Our beach time was followed by several days in Old Town Alexandria, Va., to take in a famous historical site and a new exhibit on democracy at the American Museum of ...
Having run not-for-profit organizations for the better part of my life, I have come to appreciate something that might take others a lifetime to grasp. You see, I never owned the places where I worked. It was very clear to me that, be it a school, an arts center, a tourism bureau, a ...
The importance of transparency in county government cannot be overstated. Transparency increases public trust by providing residents with up-to-date information on government decision-making. It is critical in everything from public emergencies, like the cyber attack on the county’s computer ...
Small businesses are struggling in Pennsylvania. Just ask any restaurant or retail business owner, and they will rattle off the financial challenges they face every day. Labor, food and energy costs, as well as operational expenses, never decrease; instead, they keep going up. In many ...
