By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are many ghosts in this town, some very good, some very, very bad, and a whole mix in between. Some do almost eternal penance for their sins against the continuing… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com       SUBURBIA — The New York State of my lifelong existence ranks among the top 10 nationwide in hosting foreclosing properties — about 15,000 — some of them traced to  irresponsible mortgage… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      I don’t know what karma or the gods have in store for this great nation of ours, conceived in the stew that is the rights of humankind and progressed enough to have earned… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      If you are fortunate, before you grow up but as you so quickly grow up, you’ll get to spend a few years with a patient, somewhat quiet, a bit odd grandfather like… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The average teacher’s pay amounts to about one cent per hour if you consider that for almost all humans, at least one educator proves to be our lifelong teacher, frequently remembered, still instructing us.… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com   No Memorial Day, USA or elsewhere, is without heartfelt words and tribute, parades, wreaths, re-mourning. What is always missing, though, are the voices of the fallen. Would that we could hear them. What… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   Rockland County, N.Y. — Though this suburb 20 miles north of New York City has been most diverse since the Dutch came in the 1600s, a religious  community movement strongly under way threatens… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The world has always had potholes — that’s why it is not Heaven. And it has always had people who fix potholes as well as the many more who fail to do the assigned… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Fifty years ago, visiting the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York City was like riding a train on what was supposed to be a vacation, but troubling, intruding bad news from home interrupted the… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Older folks like me have become our grandpas and grandmas in complaining that the “good, old days” are long gone, that things were always better back when. Well,  of course they were not, at least… Continue reading