By Greg Markley A character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest says: “What’s past is prologue.” What is happening today follows onto what we were doing...
New U.S. Citizenship Test: good and not so good aspects
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Greg Markley Articles
Is there a ‘War on Christmas’? Not exactly, but times are indeed changing.
By Greg Markley All of us have our own memories of Christmas. This is irrespective of religion, for in the United States people of divergent faiths...
How about paying $50 a month in restitution for 73 years and you still can’t vote?
By Greg Markley A guy goes into a bar and sits down with his Alabama voter registration form. He doesn’t see a description of exactly what crimes...
A hard day’s night: the day Beatles icon John Lennon was murdered
By Greg Markley Dec. 8, 1980 was a routine night for me as a copy boy at a newspaper in my native Rhode Island. I was a 24-year-old college student...
“Plantations” are still here, even on my undergrad degree from up north
My name, home state, type of degree, the college president’s name and signature and the chairman of the Board of Regents are all on my sheepskin...
Female VP candidate in the news? Don’t forget Sarah Palin and Trumpism.
In 1976, Republican vice presidential candidate Bob Dole campaigned at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. I briefly interviewed him...
Our Triple T election: Trump, Tuberville and Turnout
By Greg Markley The town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, recently “elected” a French bulldog as mayor, in its annual fundraiser. More than 22,000 votes...
Truck drivers are unsung heroes
By Greg Markley On Election Day, Nov. 7, 2000, Americans found themselves in a real “train wreck,” in which the next president was not known until...
On photo ID law, voter suppression – and Tommy Tuberville’s fumble
By Greg Markley In 1979 one of my fellow summer interns was the niece of the Democratic secretary of state in Rhode Island. Once, she said that if...
