Business Perspectives
Tools for Conviviality: Why We Need Them More Than Ever
An essay using the Universe 25 mouse experiment to explore meaning, loneliness, and why Beaver County’s everyday social institutions may be vital antidotes to modern abundance.
10 Surprising Beaver County Trends You May (Or May Not) See in 2026
A humorous, lightly satirical outlook on Beaver County in 2026—covering culture, food, buildings, podcasts, and the quiet resilience of a place content to carry on.
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An argument for deep reading as essential civic infrastructure—explaining how literacy builds brains, empathy, and judgment, and why Beaver County’s future depends on it.
Finally, Some Good News About Vet Care: Telemedicine
A humorous take on rising vet costs and how pet telemedicine offers a practical, lower-cost alternative—protecting both pets and hoomans from unnecessary bills and guilt-driven care.
Car Batteries, Costco, and China: What’s Happening in Silver Markets—and Why Should Anyone Care?
A quiet silver crisis may be forming as industrial demand surges, supply tightens, and paper markets strain—why Beaver County’s real-economy instincts spot the warning signs early.
Beaver County Caught Between the Dynamo and the Virgin
An essay on Beaver County’s enduring tension between industry and art, power and grace—living between Henry Adams’s “Dynamo” and “Virgin” in mills, music, engineering, and culture.
Reconstructing Conviviality (Again)
A reflection on lost conviviality, loneliness, and Ivan Illich’s warning that overbuilt systems erode community—arguing for rebuilding neighborly life beyond apps, experts, and institutions.
How Smart People Survive the Age of Certainty
A reflection on Schopenhauer, modern psychology, and civic life—exploring why certainty is common, intelligence is rare, and knowing when not to argue is a practical survival skill.
Eaton Corporation: Beaver County’s Unsung Corporate Hero
A look inside Eaton’s quiet Beaver County operation—an unglamorous but vital factory that keeps power flowing, people employed, and the region grounded in durable industrial work.
HENRY MANCINI: BEAVER COUNTY’S COOLEST CAT
A portrait of Henry Mancini’s Beaver County roots and legendary career, showing how a steel-town upbringing helped shape one of America’s coolest and most enduring musical voices.
How to Turn a Swamp Into Money
How Beaver County’s Junction Park transformed a swamp into a trolley-era destination for affordable recreation, entertainment and community life.
The Fair, the Farm, and the Candidate in Clean Shoes
A look at Beaver County’s fair traditions, from Hookstown and Big Knob to tractor pulls, farm families, fair food and politicians courting rural voters.
The Sport of Kings, With Funnel Cake
Darlington Polo Club brings the sport of kings to Beaver County with night matches, dirt fields, family tradition, pickup trucks and funnel cake.
About That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling
Empathy matters, but compassion without consequences can mislead. Grandpa Jim explores why wisdom must ask what happens next.
Old Economy, New Lessons: Why Socialism Keeps Getting a Second Chance
Why socialism keeps returning, what history reveals about central planning, and how markets, social democracy, and communal experiments compare.
The People Who Built Economy — and Forgot to Reproduce
The story of the Harmony Society, Old Economy Village, and the celibate community that built wealth, industry, and a lasting legacy in Ambridge.
Yes, She Really Is That Into You
A humorous guide for older men on recognizing when a woman is interested, from subtle glances and mirroring to compliments, confidence, and companionship.
The Price We Pay for Hating Men
An argument against judging men or women as categories, exploring contempt, bias, relationships, and the social cost of replacing individuality with ideology.
A Good Walk Never Wasted
A witty history of golf in Beaver County, from Beaver Valley and Black Hawk to Olde Stonewall and hometown legend Bill “Putt” Gabal.
Learning to Hear the Music Beneath the Noise
A thoughtful review of Henri Nouwen’s Discernment, exploring attention, silence, identity, and learning to recognize God’s voice in ordinary life.