Rosemarie Jackowski

We celebrate Labor Day by honoring workers — especially the forgotten workers. Stay-at-home mothers who home school their children are often forgotten. Others who are forgotten are those who work in school c […]

The most dangerous man in history might not be who you think it is. Not Caligula, Pinochet, or Ivan the Terrible. Not Hitler.

Trump is dangerous for many reasons. He has no moral compass. He has no ideology, […]

Many years ago Virginia, an eight-year-old girl in New York City, wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper. She asked if there was really a Santa Claus. Those were simpler times. In today’s complex world, […]

When Fascism came, it was not brought by uniformed troops. It was not imposed at the point of a gun. Fascism came because citizens were too distracted to pay attention. Voters were too misinformed to cast […]

The latest massacre in Afghanistan is just one more in a long history of US atrocities. Most of these acts by US troops go unnoticed – hardly rating a mention on the nightly news. Why has this news report broken […]

The health care topic seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. In Vermont the Death with Dignity Bill was to be considered by the Legislature during the current session. It is now reported that the Bill […]

Public schools are important…On second thought, government public schools teach an inaccurate view of world history. If it is unacceptable for FOX news to air inaccurate information, it is even more […]

Immediately close all US military bases on foreign soil. Author Chalmers Johnson reports that there are 737 US bases in 130 foreign countries. Immediately discontinue the manufacture, export, and use of […]

The death of anyone is a cause of mourning and grief. When the death is of a child the pain is intensified to infinity. The nation is now focused on the death of Caylee Anthony, a 2 year-old Florida girl. One […]

The missing part of the news report about the Texas textbook fiasco is that this is not new news. History textbooks used in most US schools have been suspect for decades. Enlightened teachers have been quietly […]

It was just a matter of time. This was sure to happen. All he really wanted was a pizza. He wanted a pizza pie so much that he walked to another country to get one. Well, he really did not walk very far. The […]

Death is not optional. It will come to all of us sooner or later. The best that can be hoped for is to have a life that is long and a death that is as painless as possible. Forty-three year old Edith Rodriguez […]

Professor Henry Louis Gates and his arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, have been invited to the White House for a beer. It might take more than a tall cool brew to cure all that ails the US.The President’s […]

The Department of Offense has awarded a 1.05 billion-dollar contract to the Oshkosh Corporation of Wisconsin. Oshkosh is associated with Plasan North America, which operates a manufacturing site in Bennington, […]

First of all – I like doctors. Some of my best friends are doctors, and besides that my life was saved three times by doctors. The problem is that some doctors do not have the same high degree of professional […]

Say it isn’t so – Sanjay Gupta as the next Surgeon General. At a time when 18,000 of us die every year from lack of access to health care, we need a champion to go up against the Congress and the insurance […]

One of the important things that happened during this recent campaign season was the censoring by the Press of non democratic/republican candidates. This has been a nation-wide problem for a long time. The […]

The following is a mostly true account. Only names and a few minor details have been changed to protect identities. Last night I received a phone call. It went something like this. CALLER – Hello – my name is […]

The GOP pick for VP was a brilliant political strategy. It accomplished two important goals. It increased donations to the Republican Party and it also has kept the spotlight off important issues. In addition, […]