It’s hard to believe that The Capital City Hues is in its 18^th year of publication. Back in the fall of 2005, my mother had died and I left The Madison Times because I knew that I would have editorial differences with the new ownership of the paper. My commitment had been to my good friend Betty Franklin-Hammonds who was the publisher of The Madison Times and whom I worked for eight years at was then called The Madison Times.

I was trying to figure out what to do next. I had been a community activist since the early 1970s and had started a non-profit accounting business to support my activism in the early 1990s. After I left The Madison Times in October 2005, I traveled to Mexico and later in early 2006, the People’s Republic of China. And I listened to friends like Shiva Bidar-Sielaff who said they missed my writing. -- READ MORE