As we celebrate Independence Day, reflect on your childhood and the lessons you were taught. Are you teaching your children what it means to be an American?
I learned the maxim 'people are policy' from Morton Blackwell, who served in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. UMass Dartmouth's people are policy.
Massachusetts was the first state to issue regular license plates on September 1, 1903. The American vanity plate was born in 1965 when states began allowing drivers to customize their own AW-SUM plates.
Of course, you pay extra to have your own choice of letters, numbers, phrases and such...