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Immigrants Drive Republicans Crazy!

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call The stakes are enormous if Republicans succeed in removing most of the estimated 11 million undocumented workers (only half of which are from Mexico and the Latin countries), and cut legal immigration in half, as they have promised to … Continue reading →

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HOW I LEARNED TO TRAVEL

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

A Memoir By Sherry Keith How I Learned to Travel, available on Amazon, is more than a travelogue, it’s an adventure story of a life of travel lived to the fullest, with an insatiable curiosity about new peoples and places. … Continue reading →

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Designing A New City

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Chapter Thirteen Goleta Old Town 1995 Flood Many of us believed that a re-design of Old Town Goleta would be an ideal location to practice some of the precepts of True Urbanism, or Smart Planning, that could aid in the … Continue reading →

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An End to the Greater Lawlessness?

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call I believe we are at another turning point in history, a return to an era of lawfulness that one political party has ignored since the deaths of JFK, Brother Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And … Continue reading →

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The Irrelevance of MAGA Republicans

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call This is another Huffington Post column I wrote in 2017 at the beginning of the Trump presidency. It’s about the irrelevance of his policies for most Americans that another Trump presidency would repeat, as well as further … Continue reading →

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Consumers Not So Confident?

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner What are we to make of the Conference Board’s latest confidence survey? “The decline in confidence between May and June was centered on consumers aged 35-54. By contrast, those under 35 and those 55 and older saw … Continue reading →

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Greater Lawlessness Causes Greater Gun Violence

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call I first wrote this Huffington Post piece in 2017 after the October 1 killing of 58 people with bump stock-equipped assault rifles at a Las Vegas music festival. It was one of a series on the growing lawlessness … Continue reading →

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The Republican Party’s Growing Lawlessness

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Many Republicans continue to maintain the innocence of former President Donald Trump after his conviction on 34 counts of tax fraud by a New York jury. It confirms what I have written about over more than a … Continue reading →

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Our Ongoing Civil War

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Alex Garland’s just released movie, Civil War, about a modern American civil war to unseat a Trump-like authoritarian president in the name of restoring democracy, is portraying an armed uprising that won’t happen today. The possibility of … Continue reading →

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Global Connections TV Interview

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Here is Global Connections Television interview about Building Community: Answering Kennedy’s Call, a memoir of my years of public service. Global Connections Television (GCTV), the only talk show of its type in the world, has featured a myriad of … Continue reading →

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