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Book Review: The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-Being

Nick J. Licata
February 13, 2019

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s “The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-Being” is a follow-up to their 2009 best-seller “The Spirit Level.” That book reviewed several hundred studies expounding on their book’s subtitle: “Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger,” and came to the breakthrough finding that “inequality affects the vast majority of the population, not only the poor minority.”

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Cheap Entertainment... At Your Expense

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Patricia Vaccarino
February 11, 2019

Message to the Working Class about Your WALL...

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Rocky Theater

Edith Lynn Beer
February 11, 2019

Theater Is Alive And Well In The Rocky Mountains...

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Luthier strikes the right chord

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Barbara McMichael
February 11, 2019

Although it is tucked into an industrial park that’s situated directly under the flight path into SeaTac International Airport, d’Aigle Autoharps almost seems like a throwback to a pre-jet-setting era. Out in the parking lot, jets with their landing gear already down scream overhead every minute or so, but step inside the door of this cozy folk instrument store and you’ll find not just autoharps, but a generous array of guitars, banjos, mandolins, sitars, Celtic harps and dulcimers, hearkening back to simpler times and pleasures.

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Donald Trump Versus Charles Van Doren: Our Lies (and Liars) are Not What They Used to Be

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Peter Corning
February 07, 2019

Donald Trump Versus Charles Van Doren:Our Lies (and Liars) are Not What They Used to Be. A famous TV quiz show cheat in the 1950s still lives with his life-changing shame. Now, much worse things happen routinely – with no shame.  Shame on Us.

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During Times of Great Turbulence

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Patricia Vaccarino
February 06, 2019

People will do anything to hold onto any force that they believe can stop the clock and make life the way it used to be. This is why Make America Great Again is one of the most impactful tag lines to rock the world. 

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Timeless Twaddle

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Erasmus
February 05, 2019

Art is in the eye of the beholder and the passion thereof time and limitless. The same can be said about Brad Twaddle’s immeasurable energy and passion for Dancing and the Arts.

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Explaining the Puzzle of Winston Churchill

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Peter Corning
February 01, 2019

Explaining the Puzzle of Winston Churchill...He was a bundle of contradictions that confounded his peers. Churchill himself may have provided the explanation.

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