by Jeff Maisey | Jun 29, 2018 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham For the last 10 years, The Taphouse in Ghent has been my home away from home—my “Cheers,” if you will. I started going there in 2008 after the end of a long marriage and quickly got to know the staff and regulars. There was great comfort in...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham, Travel
By Tom Robotham Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. ~ Mark Twain. Whenever I feel the need to take a journey of some kind, I’m torn between two options: revisiting a place that I know...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham You can’t be what you can’t see. ~ Marian Wright Edelman Every so often I see something on television that serves as a stark reminder of how much American society has changed for the better in my lifetime. A case in point: The other night I was...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook a satirical commentary titled “Make America Great Again.” Within an hour, it had elicited a typical combination of “likes” from people who share my views, and harsh rebukes from my right-wing acquaintances. The...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 26, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Teach your parents well / Their children’s hell will slowly go by. ~ Graham Nash In the immediate aftermath of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control began anew—but there was little reason...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works… ~ The Gospel According to Matthew, 5:16 Last year at this time, I was struggling to process the news that my longtime mentor, Nat Hentoff, had died. (See ‘Thank You, Nat...
