dave in the shack

I think Americans have an abbreviated sense of history and time.  It is as if nothing of any real consequence happened before 1776, or at t...

In 2012 at a tax policy conference in Chicago, sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute, moderator Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secret...

I last wrote about Illinois’ finances in January before I left for Florida.  I tend to write before out of state trips thinking that while ...

The fire burning season inside the shack is drawing to a close.  Soon I’ll just turn on the electric space heater for twenty minutes or s...

April is poetry month.  You may not have been aware of that fact, given the relatively low status of poetry these days.  Poets and books of...

I can’t figure out Florida.  It confuses me somehow.   My hotel was on the Interstate, which I wanted to leave, but I had gotten a late sta...

Savannah Georgia is old.  It was founded in 1733 about 20 miles up the Savannah River from the Atlantic Ocean.  It was and is an important ...