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Maine, Christmas 2025
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The Past on Our Plates
Why is food marketing obsessed with nostalgia while everything else looks to the future?
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Glengarry Glen Government: The Perils of Governing Like a Campaign
A recurrent pattern in public administration is the appointment of campaign communication staff to key agency roles following an electoral victory. These individuals, skilled in messaging, rapid response and public engagement, often struggle to transition from the fast-paced, reactive nature of campaigns to the structured, process-driven world of governance. Effective policymaking requires excruciating planning and…
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, January 2025
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Waikiki, January 2025
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New Mexico, December 2024
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After the election, the antidote to uncertainty isn’t more scrolling — it’s doing
Feeling overwhelmed by the weight of tomorrow? You’re not alone. Like many people this month, I’ve been caught in a spiral of news feeds and hours-long discussions about what might happen next. I keep coming back to lessons from an unexpected place: the airplane. Early in our training, pilots learn a critical lesson about handling…
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Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect Co-Creator, Dies At 76
Via WSJ: When Alan Ashton was a computer-science professor at Brigham Young University in the mid-1970s, the director of the school’s marching band knocked on his door and said he wanted to use a computer to choreograph the band’s halftime shows. Ashton was easily persuaded; he was a trumpet player whose Ph.D. dissertation at the…
Michael Castellon 