Paul Sassone

Paul Sassone is a long-time columnist for Pioneer Press and a winner of a first-place award for opinion column writing from the Local Media Association. …

• Searching for reason ‘despire’ seems apropos

  Is “despire’’ a word? I’m looking for a word that is the opposite of “aspire.’’ And “decline’’ or “descend’’ don’t seem right to me. The word “aspire’’ means to seek to attain a particular goal. Americans historically are a nation of “aspirers” — is that …Read More

• Much to learn from Johnnie’s Beef

  When someone says to me, as they frequently have during this presidential election year, that government should be run like a business, I usually ask, “Like the business where you work?” The invariable answer is, “No. My place is run by idiots,’’ followed by a …Read More

• Leave politics out of the family

  Are political beliefs genetically based? I ask because it seems to me that political beliefs run in a family. Siblings tend to share the same political outlook, wherever that may be on the political spectrum. That outlook tends to be that of their parents. Not …Read More