Recently, I was talking with someone about Ford’s wages. Older UAW workers told CEO JimFarley, “None of the young people want to work here. Jim, you pay $17 an hour, and they are so stressed.” This was from an interview with journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival recently.
On June 20, 2024, my best friend in the world died. Joel Carroll was a comics artist, known and admired by many other artists.
Recently, someone drew my attention to the usefulness of building LEGO for mental health. Those who build with bricks know that the familiar click of one piece in another can be a reassuring sound.
Before I took this job, I worked a series of retail jobs. Over the years, I got pretty good at it, but when COVID-19 hit, things took a hit for me. Recently, my friend Herc, short for “Hercules” yet spelled in a more historically accurate way, confessed the same dilemma.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that I have favorite words. I couldn’t consider myself a writer if I didn’t have words that I enjoy using.
ince I started this job almost two years ago, I have wanted to be certain that our readers get their money’s worth. The price of Progress isn’t too much compared with many other newspapers across the country, but the concern is always that for what you spend, you get enough that it seems worth it.
Before I start, this is a very nerdy conversation about a comic book that maybe a dozen people care about. I just happen to be one of them. It also involves the multiverse, so that it might break your brain.
In recent memory, almost everyone can recount a problem with postal delivery. Bills arrive past due, cards from relatives take weeks to arrive, and periodicals like the Paulding Progress arrive later than expected.
I recently received a phone call from a reader that really didn’t care for an op-ed I ran a few weeks ago. It was definitely more left leaning, but I’ve tried to include opinions from the right as well. Most of the letters to editor that I’ve received are more conservative, as well.