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The Senator Who Came Back

John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania, is 6’8”, bald, wears a Carhartt hoodie and long shorts around the Capitol. He looks like a beaten-up wrestler from the WWE. For a successful politician he appears and acts like a man from another planet. But after reading a powerful excerpt from his new

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Negotiating Two Oceans

It was time to change oceans. John and Julie King, retired and fed up with California taxes and congestion, needed an experienced crew to take

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Should We Forget?

I have been struggling to write this blog for over a year now, but it is a topic I really want to discuss, because it

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Hoping Against Hope

I read Matthew Stewart’s long, insufferable guilt laden essay last night, “The Birth of a New Aristocracy,” which is the cover story of the June Atlantic. Stewart recounts

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The Retirement Question

Is retirement a curse or a blessing? Obviously, there is no single answer to the question. I have answered the question for myself without a

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Hiring Line

The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) Tech Conference just ended, and I had a chance to talk to many of the stalwarts in the machining

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