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Guest AuthorJune 7, 2015

This column is a bit different than the normal output from me. It is not politically based or policy based. It is not about ethics and standards or any of the number of things I feel compelled to address in this most excellent venue for the exchange of information. This week I write about the […]

Guest AuthorMay 10, 2015

It is May, a season of hope and fulfillment of dreams. Graduations bloom new flowers all across our state. A limitless future of choices and chances stand before those who are crossing our stages. I recently had the privilege of offering my thoughts through a commencement address to the students receiving graduate degrees from St. […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 2015

Appalled, perplexed, baffled, mystified, angry. Any of these words captures how I feel upon reading story after story about the rise of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe. I am mindful of George Santayana’s adage, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Apparently that condemnation includes us all. We continue to see […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 12, 2015

“We were once an aspirational society.” That was said at the table during the directors meeting of an organization’s national board upon which I serve. We were deep in a discussion about the value of education to society and what it means to our country’s future, and the themes of aspiration, ambition, desire and drive […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 11, 2015

“We were once an aspirational society.” These words were spoken at the table during a national board of directors meeting of an organization upon which I serve. We were deep in a discussion about the value of education to society and what it means to our country’s future, and the themes of aspiration, ambition, desire […]

Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2014

Social media posts are aflame with comments about this election season. No, not with thoughtful analysis about key positions taken by those seeking office and no, not with commentary on the implications of those positions on our state either. What seems to bother most are two things. First, there are the unrelenting ads, coming at […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2014

This is a first for me, but I am going to include the name Keith Olbermann in a column. I am forced to because riding along the other day, I heard a tape of his comments about why everyone was making such a fuss about Derek Jeter, the New York Yankee star who is retiring […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 11, 2014

There was a different mood on the streets of London in early September 2001. Of course, some of the London suburbs had already taken on an Arabic flavor, but downtown was a different story on most days. London was always a very cosmopolitan city, filled with people in all kinds of attire, from all over […]

Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2014

Lest the public be confused with the rhetoric about higher education costs, it’s wise to take a closer look at some costs and why they are going up. The news media attention about student loans also deserves a closer look. Some sensational stories are about exceptional cases, not the experience of most students. There is […]

Guest AuthorAugust 7, 2014

I am beginning to think that taking an “ignorecation” from social media might be in order as we approach election season. Who am I kidding? Election season runs year-round these days; only the intensity of duplicity rises the closer we get. Perhaps it comes with age, but as time passes you begin to notice the […]

Tag: Ed Moore

Ed H. Moore: In life's joy and adversity, we build our own village

Ed Moore: It's commencement season, but 'commencing' what?

Ed Moore: Are we Condemned to relive the anti-Semitic 1930s?

Ed Moore: America still longs for aspirations

Ed Moore: America still longs for aspirations

Ed Moore: Are we getting what we deserve when we vote or just what we expect?

Ed Moore: What I learned listening to Keith Olbermann rant about Derek Jeter

Ed Moore: Recalling the mood in London in early September 2001

Ed Moore: Interest rates, student loans and the cost of higher education

Ed Moore: Social media and the election season: A need for a civility of attitude