Local government can mobilize us in crisis

The COVID-19 virus is presenting the biggest challenge our society has faced since the Great Depression and World War II. The baby boomer generation is now facing the first major societal challenge in our lifetime. How we respond will determine the outcomes of the impact of this terrible virus that is circulating through our population.

During the Great Depression President Franklin Roosevelt used the federal government to create jobs and put people back to work. Automobile companies quit making cars and instead manufactured tanks and bombers to defeat Germany...