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Through all the darkness of the pandemic we search for some light. Enter reformers. Big ideas are circulating. Out of a crisis should come significant change for the better. Precedents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the Depression, is cited as proof that from upheaval there can come transformations to better the lives of individuals and improve society. Photograph courtesy of Good Free Photos

Opinion

BY W.A. BOGART

May 27, 2020

Through all the darkness of the pandemic we search for some light. Enter reformers. Big ideas are circulating. Out of a crisis should come significant change for the better. Precedents such as

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