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I’m ignorant. I am “unaware of, oblivious to, ill-informed about, unenlightened about, and/or naive about” the facts that inform the decision-making of at least 70 million Americans.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/opinion/page/28/)
By now, most people have heard that this will be an especially difficult budget year for state legislators in Hartford.
I never thought I’d see the day when a dispute between the United States’ intelligence communities and a murderous foreign dictator in which an American leader sided with the dictator.
During the last month those of us at The Suffield Observer have lost two of our most loving special men, Sam Fuller and Bob Warren.
I worry about the shape that the world is in and there isn’t much I can do about it, but there are some things I can do that may make a small difference, and maybe by writing this article a slightly bigger difference.
It was Christmastime after all, but I was surprised when my friend Ruth slipped something square and hard into my hand, saying “Here’s a present”.
Who among us doesn’t appreciate the beautiful new CVS on Mountain Road? What a fine job the company did, tailoring the new building to fit so beautifully into our town!
In 1883, when Emma Lazarus penned her immortal poem that graces the base of the Statue of Liberty, she was speaking of the safety and opportunity that America offered “the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”.