Reed Harrison

On the news I saw that the Crumbley’s, husband and wife and parents of the school shooter who killed 4 classmates, were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison for manslaughter.  At the sentencing, they apologized. What struck me was how people associated with gun violence never seem to offer a caution to others about how […]

I highly recommend The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. Reading their work and my other research made me an advocate for Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting. I’m a lifelong registered Democrat but started to work with Independent Voters of Maryland

We really, really need to think about how we are going to deal with big increases in the ranks of the under- and unemployed … and the resulting even larger disenfranchised middle class.   Americans are great at reacting to a crisis.  We need to get good at avoiding crises and mitigating their impact. From a

“2024 is set to be a pivotal moment. The shape of things to come is being radically disrupted and redefined. As our discussions in Davos emphasized, driving this wave of change are four factors: … rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, … … the urgent imperatives of net zero, … … a new “post-global” order [reengineered

Talk about a “black swan”! There has been non-stop news coverage on local Baltimore TV stations since I got up this morning.  Here’s what I’ve gleaned, so far.  Not clear how much will make it on to national news. 8 construction workers were repairing potholes on the bridge.  From Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala.  Their citizenship status

Larry Mead passed on May 24, 2022, peacefully at home surrounded by family.  His son called me when Larry was on his deathbed in NJ.  Since I was in Baltimore, I wrote a “thank-you” to Larry and emailed it to his son and asked him to read it to Larry and his family. Along with

I really enjoy Brill’s books.  Good writing, credible content, thoughtful analysis, and important topics.  (And, he actually responded to an email I sent him, and did so in under 24 hours!) Class Warfare treats the dismal state of the public education system in the US and decades of efforts to improve it. My Take: In

Paradoxically, many of the pictures I found for a federal government shutdown show the Capitol with a closed sign.  Congress gets paid during a shutdown. Threats of shutdowns … and, of course, shutdowns themselves … are a tremendous waste of tax dollars … yours and mine.  To say nothing of the stress and hardship for

I was an “early adopter” of Rolling Stone magazine.  I can’t remember how I discovered it, but it appealed to my interest in music and people. It still keeps me young and current. Fong-Torres was senior editor at Rolling Stone, almost from its beginning.  Among others, he interviewed Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Steve Martin,

The Spirit of Service: At its peak, the Bell System employed a million people.  Our job was providing telephone service and keeping it working.  We believed we were providing a public service.  Telephone service was vitally important to the well-being of our Customers:  calling the fire department, an ambulance, or the police, for example. A