SNJ Journal Archive

  Friends and neighbors – Work, visits to the doctor, ordering from a restaurant – so much has gone virtual. Hunger, however, has not. And right now more Texans than ever need help feeding their families. The North...

Friends and neighbors – SARS-CoV-2 is novel; racial inequity is not. Yet quite suddenly our experiences with both of these threats have altered how we will look at almost everything. The COVID-19 experience has...

Friends and neighbors –Such an odd mix of airs – the beauty and hope of Springtime and the gloomy anxiousness of a viral pandemic. I hope the former are helping sustain you through the latter. The Spring sunshine isn’t the...

Friends and neighbors – Interview for the school newspaper, Fall 2019. First question: Student Reporter: “You’re best known for your opposition to Daylight Saving Time. What else are you interested in?” Me: “Wait – what?”...

Friends and neighbors –  Leap year is like getting an extra day without aging. Cool. While nothing to sneeze at, a single day won’t add much to the legislative Interim. I used to wonder how we’ll fill the time before the...

Friends and neighbors –  We're two weeks into 2020 and I'm moving forward with what I’ll call objective optimism. Despite partisan divisions, hopeful signs abound. Policymakers are beginning to look more to objective...