Crane: The choice ahead, and choice

Readers, viewers, and listeners most frequently ask me, “Who will win the White House this fall?”If I knew that answer with absolute certainty, I would place heavy wagers in Las Vegas and prepare for a comfortable retirement.

Crane: Making a meal out of high-stakes debate

The Keystone State plays an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election.

Crane: Putting election integrity at risk

Nowadays, it would seem that I am reviewing an alternate universe when I state the Georgia Republican Party had a very good election night on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.The incumbent Republican Party U.S. Senator David Perdue won his race by a plurality and two percentage points.Two Public Service...

Crane: Lake life and livin’ large

My parents, Jerry and Lynn Crane, were born one week and five years apart (Dad on Aug. 30, 1938, and Mom on Sept. 7, 1943), both members of the“Greatest Generation.” As a family, we always celebrated their birthdays together. This will be the third year Mom can no longer join us.

Crane: Coming to terms with term limits

Among the highest prizes in presidential electoral politics is having your term or terms of office coincide with the opportunity to make U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointments.As our U.S. Constitution added to the independence of the judiciary from a sometimes-fickle electorate, with lifetime...

Crane: The Not-So-Secret Service

On the night of his visit to the Ford Theatre to see a play that would not finish, second-term President Abraham Lincoln was working on a plan to establish a Secret Service, not for executive protection but to protect and ensure against the circulation of fraudulent currency.

Crane: Biden his time

The energetic New Castle County councilman was only 29 years old when he decided to challenge two-term U.S. senator and former two-term governor, Republican J. Caleb  Boggs, for his Senate seat.The young lawyer had a beautiful family and ran on a platform of “change,” while also questioning the...

Crane: And they’re off

Our father, my sisters, and I spent the better part of three years with our mother during that slow, halting walk into her sunset.

Crane: Get schooled by a job

It did not feel like Christmas morning, or even a birthday, that late afternoon when I received my first job offer.It was 1974. I was 13, and before the end of the year, I was paying Social Security taxes.

Crane: Knowing when it’s time to go home

I first met U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1987, roughly six months into his first term, at Scottsdale, AZ.McConnell was energetic, vibrant, quick-witted, and very thoughtful in his public policy position statements.McConnell is retiring as U.S. Senate Minority Leader after leading the...