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Purcell: Government largesse for writers
The Longview News-Journal· 2 days agoDuring the Great Depression, the government established the Works Progress Administration. As part of the Federal Writers’ Project, nearly 7,000 writers...
Jack D. Turner
Elko Daily Free Press· 16 hours agoThe Seabee Moto is “Can Do!” And he certainly carried that attitude with him for the rest of his life. After returning to civilian life he applied to...
What sparked one of SLO County’s largest-ever wildfires? A tractor on Santa Margarita Ranch
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoCounty it would place high up, coming in at about third with 50,000 acres burned. Meanwhile, the...
Life as I know it: Fathers, sons and missed opportunities
Traverse City Record-Eagle· 6 days agoToday is Father’s Day and I’m not going to lie, it’s a “holiday” that I occasionally struggle with....
Opinion | The three words it took my dad his whole life to learn to say
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 6 days ago-Day has had me thinking a lot about my father. Dad had served as a lieutenant in the Canadian navy...
...Inflict More Damage Than One That Precipitated Great Depression: 'Prescription For The Mother Of...
Benzinga· 6 days agoFormer Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Friday said he hasn’t seen a more inflationary economy...
Managing the Expectations Gap in Parenting
Sean Kernan via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMy parents, despite being genetically close to me, grew up in very different households. They were raised by, “The Greatest Generation”, born just prior...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art exhibition tells American stories from the Great Depression to...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 3 days agoOpening this Thursday, “The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928-1945” is a new exhibition at...
This Day In History
The Wahpeton Daily News· 9 hours agoBill (officially the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) hoping to avoid a relapse into the Great Depression after the war ended. FDR particularly wanted ...
Trump schooled as Bush speechwriter tears apart rant with history lesson
The Raw Story· 2 days agoTo bolster his case, Trump cited two historic examples of American tariff policy that he claimed...