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Richard Bearman (MD)'s avatar

Heather, thank goodness for you and your perspective. You bring scope to isolated stories and make me glad to read you every day, even when we're both worried by events. Thank you, and know that thousands of us feel the same gratitude.

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Bill Alstrom (MAtoMainetoMA)'s avatar

This letter rang some of my memory bells. A few years ago I read "The Bully Pulpit" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. All about Teddy Roosevelt and the McClure crew. Highly recommend it.

If there is to be another true progressive era, it will take much more muck raking - and it will need to come from someone with a "Tarbell" reputation. Someone like Rachel Maddow has the intellect and drive but she is tainted or labeled as "too far left".

In reality, the closest thing we have to such a person is our Professor HCR. But while her following is growing, these stories of corruption need to be all over NBC, ABC and CBS. And propelled through every social media platform. The theme could be "Wake Up America, you are being had."

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