Gary Franks Columns category
Gary Franks: Black history and the Holocaust
Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called Reconstruction. This truly brief period ended after the controversial election of President Rutherford Hayes via the Compromise of 1877, when...
Gary Franks: Biden and Trump pardons overshadow Inauguration Day
I never thought that my column this week would be about anything other than the inauguration of America’s 47th president, Donald J. Trump, and his visionary quest to bring America into a Golden Age. But then we had the pardons. They were all historic in nature. I am disappointed and...
Gary Franks: The return of Donald J. Trump
On Jan. 20 Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as our 47th president of the United States. He truly has an opportunity to have a remarkable four years in office. Only one person, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president, has had the chance to serve as president for...
Gary Franks: This is not your ‘Leave it to Beaver’ America
The billionaire advisers to President-elect Donald Trump may feel that cutting the spending of the federal government would solve America’s fiscal problem. Godspeed. However, America’s true cancer is the low workforce participation rate. We may claim unemployment is around 4%, but in reality 38% of Americans are not factored into...
