VIEW FROM HERE--For nearly six years I lived next to a family from Yemen. Today it is impossible for me to see people from that country as the nameless victims shown on TV.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Progressive organizers are mobilizing behind the Green New Deal resolution—unveiled last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)—with renewed energy to build "an unprecedented political coalition" to radically transform the nation's energy system and address the climate crisis while also facilitating a just transition to a new, greener economy. 

EXPOSED-In 2013, Time magazine published an article entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” which bemoaned millennials’ inability to live up to the gumption and sturdiness of baby boomers or the entrepreneurial spirit of Generation X. It had a laundry list of criticisms, but the one that stood out was that millennials were “stunted, having prolonged a life stage between teenager and adult.” 

DOLLARS AND SENSE--Every so often these days, I read it. I think the Economist did a cover story on it. Bloomberg, an article. The Times, an op-ed. “We have to save capitalism!” LOL — my friends, laugh gently with me. We don’t have to save capitalism.

GUN POLITICS--As President Donald Trump weighed the prospect of declaring a national emergency to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without dealing with Congress, one of the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, offered an alternative: How about Trump declare a national emergency over gun violence instead?

VIEW FROM HERE-According to the Government Accountability Office, President Trump's early trips to Mar-a-Lago cost 13.8 million dollars. The Defense Department and Homeland Security incurred most of those costs, approximately 8.5 and 5.1 million respectfully.