Cloud Nine Higher

Supporters of President Donald Trump are beginning to see the challenges in the making for their man. And those who detest the current Commander in Chief are salivating with delight as projections for the upcoming fall election turn increasingly blue in color and leftward in leaning. And perhaps a sign of the demise of Donald was me warming up to him during the initial wave of coronavirus that struck America during March and April. While I have never been a major MAGA guy, I respect anyone who is sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is a difficult guy to like regardless of how one feels about our President. I came on board late, but my reasons for liking him are way different from his following.  But aren't both parties sort of difficult to like these days? We hear way more in the way of negative campaigning than we ever do positive talk about the direction anyone wants to lead us in.  The pandemic is driving our country crazy in a bad way. The Trump camp says that the who...

By this time in the year, we should have been in much better shape. Thinking about stadium and possibly even arena events. Looking forward to football played before fans. Watching our children head back to real school. Watching our safety protocol produce results and shrink the COVID-19 pandemic. But the sad reality is that we are nowhere near those results and that we are hung up in earlier and regressing phases of the reactivation of our society. Vaccines and treatments that can rescue us and crush the pandemic are certainly on the way. But we will not do much better until they arrive or until so many people test positive that we begin to develop some sort of population immunity or until the virus just runs out of places to grow. Not happening anytime soon. Here in town, we have the best and the brightest working for us. In my view, Mayor Cooper seems to have a weird sense of enjoyment about shutting down businesses and shoving the cost to the taxpayers. Some would say that the Democ...