The Mapleton Dispatch
Woodrow SwancuttWritten by Woodrow Swancutt. Politics, civic life, public trust, and the occasional necessary jab at professional nonsense.
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How Many Things Can Go Wrong at Once?
Picture the kitchen table on an ordinary morning. Coffee, maybe toast, a prescription bottle, a stack of bills you haven’t opened because nothing good has ever come from opening a window envelope before breakfast. Somewhere in the backgroun...
The unemployment rate says 4.1 percent. The job market is telling a less cheerful story.
You lose your job. You polish the résumé, fill out applications and introduce yourself to enough hiring websites to begin wondering whether anyone inside these companies is actually alive.
Months pass. You’re still looking, so the governme...
Early Voting in the 2026 Midterm Elections
Election Day for the 2026 midterm elections is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Millions of Americans, however, will be able to cast their ballots before then.
As of August 14, 2026, the National Conference of State Legislatures reports that 47...
Close Enough to Freedom
I was 24 years old, standing in a motorcycle shop in Maryland in late 1970, staring at a brand-new Triumph Bonneville 650 like Moses had just come down from the mountain carrying two stone tablets and a British motorcycle. I’d never ridden...
What Happened to Our Freedom?
Stick with me on this. It’s not one of those Lala Land essays. No incense. No chants. Just an old man’s honest to goodness thoughts about freedom. and how somehow we managed to screw it all up.
OK, now picture this. A few billion years ag...
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