How do we measure a community’s net loss or gain when new stores come to town? There is no easy way to measure progress, nor to measure decline. From a distance, and over decades...

Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on watching George C. Scott in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” by Gregory Rehmke Consider Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge, as brought to...