Opinions

I will admit I didn’t watch much Olympics coverage; I never do. I’m put off by how the event has turned into bad-taste corporate kitsch in the best of times, and this was definitely not the best of times. First of all, it was delayed a year because the planet was ravaged by the pandemic, which lingers so oppressively that the athletes who didn’t come down with COVID, who have devoted their lives to reaching the pinnacle of individual accomplishment, competed before empty stadiums and fields of competition. The “best” story was that gymnast Simone Biles disappointed by being human and facing her vulnerabilities.

With the intersection of a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases and the beginning of a new school year, the governor’s agenda for the new special legislative session has a couple of additions.

Teddy Roosevelt fervently believed that the president of the United States should be at the center of the political universe, constantly attracting attention to himself. But he’d never met Joe Biden.