The Last Best Place

When people wonder about the future of this country, I tell them, “Look at our past.”  In tough times we come together.  Selfishness may get headlines, but  selfLESSness built America.  It kept many places from becoming ghost towns....

Immigrant Surgeon

One of the finest brain surgeons in the world began his journey  very differently from most doctors.  The hands that pluck out brain tumors once picked vegetables for $22 a day.  Alfredo Quinones was a migrant worker living in an old camper top in the...

Refugee Wins Nobel Prize

I’d like you to meet Mario Capecchi.  He’s the son of a single mom, a poet, who thought she could defeat the Nazis with her pen.  She didn’t, but he became one of the scientists who saved us.   Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens...

 Restoring the South Bronx 

After years of urban decline, the community of the South Bronx gets a boost from native Hedy Fox, who brings the skills she learned in college to the challenges of neighborhood crime.  Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to...

Finding Hope

Every generation faces terrible challenges.   Wars, depressions, holocausts.  Polio, Aids, pandemics.  We cannot predict what will come, but it is well to remember people who play a bad hand well, over and over again.  They are why America not only survives, but...