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Benjamin J. Kirby

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Latest Issues

Guest Commentary: The Rays Stadium Saga

After my post on places last weekend, I was thinking about the Hillsborough and City of Tampa votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium, wondering if there was anything to say about it. Or even how to say anything about it. I’m not a stadium expe...

5 days ago

I’d Rather Have the Frost Top

Sometimes I imagine the places from my past life as an ancient, magical Dungeons & Dragons map.

Behold! A fantasy map version of the greater Little Rock area!

Okay, so not exactly an spot-on D&D replica of the greater Little Rock area. Bu...

9 days ago
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On Birthdays, Milestones, Old Friends, and Legacy

The primary context of this entry is the John Harris piece in Politico marking Bill Clinton’s milestone 80th birthday, which the former president celebrated this past week.

The secondary context is that I turned 55 — a sort of milestone b...

16 days ago
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Voting and a Sense of Shared Sacrifice

Off my usual Saturday morning cadence here for a couple of good reasons. First, it was my birthday this past weekend. A sort of semi-milestone: I turned 55. I am not a big believer in birthday parties for fully grown people. So I was lucky...

20 days ago
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Maybe Now is the Time for Mandatory National Service

I am old enough to have been at the forefront of political campaigns that needed a fairly newfangled technology called “websites”. Remember those?

This past week, a candidate named Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate...

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