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1 week ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Tonguette
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... I have become accustomed to Donald Trump in his role as dealmaker, peacemaker, troller of myriad left-wing pieties, and proposer of 51st states, but I admit that I was unprepared, earlier this week, to encounter the 47th president in the guise of endorser of austerity.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Tonguette
William P.A. Hunt began work on what became his superb new book on Georgia’s Golden Isles in 2020, when, amid the pandemic, he perceived a hastening in the trend to erase history. Hunt will have none of it. “History is an unchangeable reality — a tapestry woven with both beauty and tragedy,” writes Hunt, whose book, deeply researched yet engagingly written, has its roots in his master’s thesis at Princeton University.
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1 week ago | 
columbusmonthly.com | Peter Tonguette
Hilliard is rich with opportunities for families, entrepreneurs and businesses to find a home, launch an idea and build a fun, well-rounded life in a city dedicated to growing strategically. Peter TonguetteColumbus MonthlyFor a lifelong Hilliard resident like Samantha Brill, it’s hard to miss the ways in which the city has grown, diversified and broadened its horizons over the last several decades.
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2 weeks ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Tonguette
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Can man live by garden centers alone? That question was implicit in one aspect of the public-health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which, five years ago, had already begun its march to mow down Americans’ civil liberties and personal freedoms.
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3 weeks ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Tonguette
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... How do we define who and what constitutes our community? In a curious fluke of my upbringing, my “community” was, for many years, my immediate family: my mother, my father, my younger brother. My parents, who had children later in life, had few friends with children of comparable ages. And because they had waited so long to become parents, they were vigilant about those with whom my brother and I socialized.
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3 weeks ago | 
columbusceo.com | Peter Tonguette
These repeat honorees aim to help employees succeed by promoting communication, work-life balance and flexibility. Peter TonguetteColumbus CEOMany companies take pride in being customer-focused, but one of the Top Workplaces in Central Ohio believes that helping its customers succeed is possible only with the success of its own employees. “We often start off major meetings with, ‘OK, how will this impact our people?’ ” says Kevin Zeppernick, CEO of mixed-use real estate developer Thrive Companies.
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1 month ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Tonguette
Culture
The Highlights Habit
Politics or sports—we’re all here for the exciting moments.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... As a watcher of live sporting events, I plead guilty to preferring the miracle finish to the long slog that precedes the miracle finish. I was reminded of my inexcusable inattentiveness on Monday evening, when the Florida Gators played the Houston Cougars in the NCAA men’s basketball championship.
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1 month ago | 
columbusmonthly.com | Peter Tonguette
Central Ohio radio veteran Jennifer Hambrick keeps a full schedule. For her day job, Hambrick is the midday host on WOSU Classical 101, where she introduces local lovers of classical music to masterpieces by Beethoven, Bach and all the rest. Also a broadcast producer at WOSU, Hambrick blogs regularly on arts topics. Hambrick finds time for poetry, too— her poetry. Connect with the Columbus you don't know.Subscribe to Columbus Monthly's weekly Top Reads newsletter.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Tonguette
Val Kilmer was a movie star who perceived something lacking in the business of being a movie star. Although he had the countenance of a leading man and was born with a name that, though authentic, sounds almost made-up in the manner of, say, Rock Hudson, Kilmer consistently resisted and rejected the machinations of modern show business.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Tonguette
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of Graydon Carter, there was no enterprise more engaging, stimulating, or fun than running a glossy, well-subsidized general-interest magazine at the turn of the millennium.
