Winter Wonderland at Our Lake! Dear Colleagues, The snow yesterday made for a winter wonderland at our lake.  These photos were from my driveway.  The house on the left is where we live. Tony

Scott Maxwell:  Florida Schools Posted Worst Test Scores in Decades!   Orlando Sentinel. Dear Commons Community, My colleague, Patsy Moskal, alerted me to an opinion piece written by Scott Maxwell, a […]

Maureen Dowd on Trump and Musk:  "To elect one Emperor of Chaos is unfortunate. To elect two is asking for it." Dear Commons Community Maureen Dowd had a column yesterday in The New York Times entitled, “Musk’s Lost Boys and Trump’s Mean Girls […]

New Time Cover Shows Elon Musk Sitting Behind Trump's Resolute Desk Dear Commons Community, Time magazine has revealed the cover of its latest edition, showing billionaire Elon Musk sitting behind the […]

Trump Administration Orders Funding Cuts for Science Research and Reducing Indirect Costs! Dear Commons Community, The Trump administration announced late Friday it is drastically reducing payments the National Institutes of […]

Trump to go after congestion pricing, bike lanes and sanctuary city status in New York City! Dear Commons Community, In an exclusive interview with The New York Post, Trump has formulated a plan to force New York to “kill” con […]

Will Generative AI exacerbate the climate crisis? Will Generative AI exacerbate the climate crisis? ADOBE Stock Photo. Dear Commons Community, In a letter to “Science”, three Chi […]

Vilcek Foundation Celebrates Four Immigrant Scientists! Marianne Bronner, Elham Azizi, Guosong Hong, and Maayan Levy. Photos:  Courtesy of the Vilcek Fondation. Dear Commons Community, Those […]

A Professional Sports Smorgasbord This Weekend! Dear Commons Community, For sports enthusiasts, this weekend provides a smorgasbord of top events in several professional sports […]

NCAA Bars Transgender Women From Competing in Women’s Sports Trump Signing Order Banning Transgender Women from Competing in Women’s Sports Dear Commons Community, College […]

”Once We Were Brothers” – A Novel by Ronald H. Balson Dear Commons Community, I have just finished reading a second novel by Ronald H. Balson entitled, Once We Were Brothers, written in […]

Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk Protesters on the steps of the Washington State Capital in Olympia.  Courtesy of The Associated Press. Dear Commons […]

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Disses Pete Hegseth's Qualifications on Hannity! Dear Commons Community, ESPN’s commentator, Stephen A. Smith, slammed Fox News for brazen hypocrisy while on Fox News’ Hannity sho […]

USAID Hires Put On Leave Worldwide Dear Commons Community,  The Trump administration is placing the U.S. Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around […]

Wall Street Journal Mocks Trump:  "Trump Blinks on North American Tariffs" Dear Commons Community. The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board has again jabbed Trump over his tariff policy, this time deriding t […]

Daily Aspirin No Longer Recommended for Stroke Prevention in Older Adults!   Dear Commons Community, Nearly half of U.S. adults believe that the benefits of taking low-dose aspirin daily outweighs […]

Video: Canadians Boo American National Anthem at Sporting Events! Dear Commons Community, Fans at a Toronto Raptors game continued an emerging trend Sunday of booing the American national anthem at pro […]

Conservative Wall Street Journal calls Trump tariffs ‘dumbest trade war in history’ Dear Commons Community, US business leaders are offering their reactions to the steep trade tariffs that the Trump administration has […]

Mihir A. Desai: The Nvidia Rout and the Future of A.I. in Tech Markets! Dear Commons Community, Mihir Desai, a professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, had a sobering guest essay in […]

Remembering Anne Frank 80 Years Later – First and Foremost a Story of Brutal Antisemitism! Dear Commons Community, The New York Times had a featured essay entitled, “80 Years Later, Remember the Singular Tragedy of Anne F […]