by Kurt Thigpen | Oct 4, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
This past Tuesday's presidential debate was neither "presidential" or a "debate." It looked more like a cable TV clash of "Pardon the Interruption" on steroids. Millions around the world watched as two ancient-looking American...
by Kurt Thigpen | Sep 27, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
If ever there was a year that set up a biblical-like scenario for the supposed last days, 2020 would probably take the cake. I'm not just talking about the appearance of a worldwide pandemic and long food lines, along with fires and floods rampaging the...
by Kurt Thigpen | Sep 20, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
"This is the value of the teacher, who looks at a face and says there's something behind that and I want to reach that person, I want to influence that person, I want to encourage that person, I want to enrich, I want to call out that person who is behind...
by Kurt Thigpen | Sep 13, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
It's been a very long year. Some have even wondered if Lady Luck has abandoned Nevada. Reviewing the state's COVID-19 actions over the past six months, Gov. Sisolak recently told reporters we have "a long way to go" before restoring Nevada's...
by Kurt Thigpen | Sep 6, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Apparently a lot, when it comes to William Shakespeare's classic prose from "Romeo and Juliet." And, most certainly these days — when it comes to a few...
by Kurt Thigpen | Aug 30, 2020 | Memo from the Middle
'With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and...
