Dear editor, In the mid-1980’s Mikhail Gorbachev liberalized the Soviet Union with his perestroika and glasnost programs. The Berlin wall fell in November 1989 and a month later unruly street crowds in Dresden stormed through the Stasi building ousting 37-year old KGB officer Vladimir Putin.
Dear Abby: I am a 50-year-old man, married for 25 years. My wife is older than me. In the beginning, it was great, but our relationship slowly started failing, and now we argue about everything. I feel like I’m trapped in a cage. We don’t have one single thing in common anymore.
“We must formulate and put forward for other nations a much more positive and constructive picture … than we have put forward in the past.” This is from the famous “Long Telegram” sent from Moscow to Washington by diplomat George F. Kennan in early 1946.
Dear editor, Safe to say that the vast majority of Americans have never been refugees. I certainly haven’t.
Last week was a long week on the House floor. We heard hundreds of bills over several days ahead of a major deadline.
It was another busy week here at the Capitol as we worked to complete voting on Senate bills in our chamber ahead of our March 24 deadline for these measures to be heard. When we convened this session in February, we had about 1,500 pieces of legislation eligible for consideration, including bills carried over from the previous session. Of these measures, we approved 320 of them to send to our colleagues in the House.
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has finally raised interest rates. On March 16, the central bank announced interest on reserve funds would be .4 percent. Bank currency transactions will keep interest rates in a range between .25 and .5 percent.
Vladimir Putin’s catastrophic assault against the independent country of Ukraine is a truly heinous act that jeopardizes the stability of Europe and peace across the globe. It has been heartbreaking to witness the humanitarian disaster that Russia’s unwarranted invasion has caused on innocent civilians in a sovereign, prosperous nation. Although I believe the Biden Administration’s decisions were reactionary instead of preventative, I agree with the sanctions he has placed on Russia’s economy, oligarchs, and Putin – but we can’t stop there.
Dear editor, The war in Ukraine makes us think of its ending which we would call ‘peace.’ Following D Day mid-way through 1944 we anticipated the end of WWII. When it came it was called “VE’ for Victory in Europe.
South Korea’s voters have elected Yoon Suk-yeol of the conservative People Power Party their next leader. He will take office in May, succeeding President Moon Jae-in, after defeating Lee Jae-myung of the governing Democratic Party. Under the constitution, the president serves a single five-year term and cannot run for re-election.