Take a bow for the great boat and the great video, Bay Weld Boats. Freebird!

Quote: “Can Mary explain what effect extending the 2017 tax cuts will have on economic growth AND make her entire segment rhyme? Will Erika be able to overcome her fear of singing and craft a country song about the history of Medicaid? Can Kenny put together a piece about what warning signs economists look for to know whether the national debt has grown too large… but as a romantic comedy?”
Fun and funny. Click through to listen. (Planet Money Podcast)

Meet 14-year old Benny Benson. He designed the Alaska State Flag.

Quote: “It was on July 9, 1927, almost a hundred years ago, that Benny Benson ran the very first Alaska flag up a flagpole. He was the 14-year-old Alaska Native student who won a statewide contest for the flag’s iconic design — eight stars of gold on a field of blue.” But that’s not all there is to his story. Read on. (Alaska Public Media)

Quote: “Imagine the Liberty Bell—not with its crack hidden or ignored, but repaired with gleaming gold, its fracture transformed into a mark of dignity and resilience. This vision draws from kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold. Rather than concealing damage, kintsugi honors it, elevating the object’s history by making its fractures part of its beauty. What if we saw America this way?”
Please do click through to read the whole piece, because it’s well worth it. (Civic Renaissance with Alexandra Hudson, bwo The Best of Journalism)

The USGS livestreams from the ongoing Halema’uma’u eruption are spectacular. (USGS YouTube)

Quote for the day…

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. –Mark Twain

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