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Former Aerosmith drummer turns 72

Former Aerosmith drummer turns 72

Readers share their views on the Vero marina master plan; local resistance to change; de-escalation training for police; and a what-if on Trump, Putin

How the towns citizen-led revitalization is bringing Main Street back

“Did Thomas Jefferson really say that newspapers are more important than government?” my student Chris asked a few weeks ago in our class on the revolutionary generation.

The pandemic is both a catastrophe of historic dimensions and a monumental crime. Its impact is the result of decisions made by capitalist governments to deliberately prioritize profits over lives and adopt policies that have allowed the virus to spread wildly throughout the global population.

We were warned. You can’t say we weren’t warned. But with those warnings coming more than 70 years ago, it is understandable that the lessons would be ignored today.

Many notable works of literature have a strong strain of prophecy about them. Few American classics illustrate that as well as Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 bestseller, “It Can’t Happen Here.”

Many of Q's story lines, including evil lizard aliens and a cabal of pedophiles, are pulled from films and television shows. Screenwriters are not happy.

In 'It Can't Happen Here,' Sinclair Lewis foresaw not only that a coup would come from the right, but that it would come clothed in populist rhetoric.