The recent turmoil at the Voice of America, created by Trump’s attempts last year to politicize that global example of a free press, reminded me of an incident that occurred one evening during the twenty-five years I spent as the manager of Blues Alley, the Georgetown jazz club in Washington, D.C.
Age is just a number and when it got to 78-yer-old President Joe Biden he immediately halted the real count.
Democrats got the job done today while Republicans obstructed until the last minute when they melted down.
The whole world is watching and realizing America is back. A time where experience is going to be valued higher than BS.
We The People have spoken and everyone really agrees. An approval of POTUS 46 Joe Biden is the decree.
Last night, I was channel surfing and stopped to watch #MSNBC’s @Lawrence on cable TV. O’Donnell, whom I had met years earlier when Lawrence was a guest on The McLaughlin Group program I was co-producing. On last night's show Lawrence was interviewing Aaron Sorkin and Sasha Baron Cohen about their award-winning film.
If President Joe Biden's COVID19 stimulus plan makes it all the way through Congress with only support from The Democrats, it would stand out from the Coronavirus relief plans passed over the last year with bipartisan GOP support. Government Obstructionist Party.
Meanwhile, an Associated Press poll shows that 70 percent of Americans back President Joe Biden's handling of the virus response, including 44 percent of Republicans. Fewer approve of his handling of the economy, at 55 percent.
A Pacific-wide tsunami alert issued after the 8.1-magnitude quake. The powerful quake struck in the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, prompting some evacuations and tsunami warnings across the South Pacific. There was little damage from the huge Pacific quake and a tsunami threat passes.
As a young boy and later as an aspiring journalist, I visited baseball stadiums, boxing gyms, athletic clubs, soccer fields, and many other sporting venues where I met and spoke with baseball legends Stan The Man Musial, and Minnie Miñoso, Boxing great Cassius Clay, The Real GOAT, daredevil Evel Knievel, and another great athlete, Soccer Superstar PELE.
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Why has Texas Greg Governor Abbott issued an executive order ending the statewide mask mandate and then announced that all businesses will reopen at 100 percent capacity beginning on March 10? This bold move also appears to be spreading as Mississippi, which now says it is also considering the same action. The Governors of Texas and Mississippi say they will lift their mask mandate and give all their businesses the green light to reopen.
Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides the forest. This is more about political deforestation by tainting the beautiful flowers and clean politics from the state of Florida’s government in the sunshine.
Roberto FE Soto is a multilingual Latino media maestro, with a successful career in global communications and in higher education.
As so many others have, Soto arrived in the #USA as an immigrant child with his family. He did not speak English but learned from his mother and father the value of American education. Soto was a writer, editor, and producer at NBC News and went on to teach journalism at private and public colleges and universities, including an HBCU with a strong tradition of serving minority students.