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Author: Harvey Radin

Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.

HMPRESENTLY: You Just Don’t Know…Until You Know

Posted on September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 by Harvey Radin

In the article, American political speechwriter and author, David Litt, notes that “Restrictive voting laws make casting a ballot disproportionately difficult for lower-income, non-white and young Americans”…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: The Will of the People

Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 by Harvey Radin

A majority of Americans support Social Security, which various politicians seem so eager to abolish. The Pew Research Center reported, recently, that “74 percent of Americans say Social Security benefits should not be reduced in any way…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Flummoxed!

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 by Harvey Radin

Reading Jared Kushner’s words in the media, the other day — he said that “controversy elevates message” — I was wondering if that’s really so, considering what the president himself, and others around him, have been saying, lately…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Touting His Tax Cuts, There’s One Tax POTUS Keeps Increasing

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Harvey Radin

In the Cambridge Dictionary, syntax is defined as “the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence.” The grammatical arrangement…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Was POTUS Feeling a Little Chummy?

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by Harvey Radin

I’ve been interviewed by journalists. Sometimes, I suppose, you might start thinking there’s good chemistry going on. You’re feeling good rapport…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: What’s It Called? A Rock and a Hard Place?

Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 by Harvey Radin

Seeing this Boston Herald headline — “Biopharma CEOs sign pledge committing to safety and science in hunt for COVID-19 vaccine” – I realized that fear may still be working…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: God, That’s Good!

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Harvey Radin

“There are no strangers” at Rodney Scott’s restaurants — he has more than one location, now. “Everyone has a seat at our table…”

Posted in Essays/Poetry

HMPRESENTLY: Troubling, Breaking News, and Two Veterans’ Meaningful Words

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by Harvey Radin

My unit was not called up to serve in Vietnam or the Middle East. After basic training and advanced individual training, that lasted six months, I spent the remainder of my six-year commitment in the US…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Inspiring Hope, Defeating Despair Isn’t Cheap!

Posted on September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 by Harvey Radin

The US Department of Health and Human Services will be paying $250 million for a PR campaign to “defeat despair and inspire hope about the coronavirus…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: The People Who Kept the Babies Safe

Posted on September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 by Harvey Radin

I don’t want to sound all saccharine, all syrupy. But… caring about people and caring about principles – I’ve been thinking – is what strong, heroic people tend to do…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Humor, Love and… That Flaming Burr Under My Saddle!

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 by Harvey Radin

I’m not sure why, but in my mind, early Saturday morning, I’m hearing a 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis song, and I’m recalling the lyric… “You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: The Screen Flickered, One Last Time

Posted on August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 by Harvey Radin

Yes…my old PC had served me well, putting up with all kinds of words I’ve been writing on it, for how long? For 10, maybe 12 years, or more?

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: ‘You Gotta Clean Your Floors, You Gotta Clean Your Forests…’

Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 by Harvey Radin

“I see again the forest fires are starting,” President Trump said recently, during a rally in Pennsylvania. “They’re starting again in California…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: No ‘De Joy,’ So To Speak?

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 by Harvey Radin

In the run-up to what may be the most important election of our time – during a pandemic! – these changes, apparently, at the Postmaster General’s direction, are extremely concerning…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: If There’s a PR God… Please Check This Message

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 by Harvey Radin

That’s why I’ve been writing about politics and politicians… trying, somehow, to figure out that which may very well be incomprehensible…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Cockeyed & Subtle as a Brick

Posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 by Harvey Radin

So, does this mean other steps might be in the works to soften the fed troopers’ — and the Department of Homeland Security’s — image?

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: The Street Sweeper, Bipartisanship… and a Coherent COVID Strategy

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 by Harvey Radin

We occasionally see the street sweeper, one of those trucks slowly lumbering along streets, sweeping away debris with big, round brushes on the bottom of the truck…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

HMPRESENTLY: Incomplete Sentences, With Grammar That’s Not So Good

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Harvey Radin

I recalled something in the news on TV, about a lady in her 90s, and her son, who reside on a parcel of land near a Trump Organization golf course, out there in Scotland….

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: What a Pile of PR!

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 by Harvey Radin

At its best, what’s commonly known as ‘public relations’ can add something to what people are reading, seeing, and hearing about…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
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