Articles on PR for People

To avoid future threats to our democracy, we should develop something like an earthquake early warning system.  Donald Trump could serve as our model. We have seen this movie several times before.   If we can learn to pick up the plotline from seeing the previews, maybe we can avoid having to watch this movie unfold again. Once upon a time, we were taught to be wary of snake oil salesmen, traveling medicine men, card sharks, and other charlatans.  We need to revive the lost art of distrust.

Manny Frishberg writes about the community in Allenspark, Colorado (population 528) who rallied together to help one another in the latest round of devastating wildfires. Located in Boulder County, Allenspark is surrounded by the Roosevelt National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park. 

We still have more than a month to go before we’re done with this year that has hurled everything but the kitchen sink at us. The stressors have been nonstop.  To borrow from a popular children’s picture book title, this has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.  

Patricia Vaccarino writes about the challenges facing independent bookstores in the age of the pandemic, the “Boxed Out Campaign” sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, a few of her favorite bookstores, and the first time she bought a book at the legendary Alicat Bookshop in Yonkers, New York.