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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band by Boston journalist Carmen Fields is a memoir of her father, trombonist, pianist, music arranger and band leader of the Ernie Fields Big Band. The saga covers many of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. He wasn’t there in person, but Donald Trump was the big winner at the GOP’s 2024 primary debate. In a display of cowardice and moral corruption, six of the eight candidates said that they would vote for…

The entry below ia being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. met Benjamin Netanyahu some 40 years ago at a small dinner at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. I saw him again at a larger event, an impassioned speech on terrorism. It was just after he founded an…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog.   This week marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop music, and many platforms, including National Public Radio and the New York Times, are celebrating the phenomenon. For those of us immersed in or more comfortable with Beethoven, the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Trump and his acolytes are whining across media platforms that Tuesday’s grand jury indictment of Donald Trump is a violation of his First Amendment rights. The villains, they complain, are the weaponization of the Department of Justice and…

The entry below is being cross posted frtom Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Reading books year-round is life-enhancing, but reading in summertime seems especially to be savored. Here are some non-fiction selections. The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson will fascinate anyone intrigued by the immigrant experience, Irish…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. There’s nothing like the distractions of summer to make one forget (almost) the news. And, however guilty I may feel about not persevering as the “eat your spinach” part of your weekly communications, I have no intention…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own bloig. On this 247th celebration of our country’s birth, any American who believes in the progress of civilization must be rattling in the throes of PTSD. Over the last two years, the Supreme Court has managed to wipe…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against GOP legislators in North Carolina, who had claimed that they should have unreviewable powers to set the rules for their state’s federal elections. The six-to-three decision (with Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and…