The Larry Kane Report

This space is usually reserved for analysis, commentary and frank opinion on the news that affects us.

Since this a holiday of giving thanks, I would like to move in a different direction. Sometimes news people appear to be jaded because we don’t trust much of what we see. We may see life in more stark images, but most of us have a real appreciation of what’s really important.

This is a day to accent the positive. So, in the spirit of the holiday, some thanks for the gifts we may take for granted.

We thank our families for the wisdom of candor and the usually unqualified love that they give us.

We should be thankful that, with all of its challenges, we live in the most democratic country in the world where opportunities wait, and freedom gives us the chance to choose.

We give thanks to the men and women who fight our wars. Controversy is part of the freedoms that we have always fought for without compromise. Just as we wage war, we need te embrace the ability to debate the merits.

We should appreciate the roots of education, even though much of it is unequal in parts of the nation.

Thanksgiving Day is a day when American should appreciate the differences among us that make this place so creative and interesting.

Thanks is also required to the forgotten people whose jobs keep us going: police and firefighters, trash collectors and power crews who keep us out of the dark and shed new light on neighborhoods that need them.

Our freedoms to pray our way, and speak out against injustice, are speciisl treats in a world filled with anixiety.

I feel priviledged to have written and broadcast the news for 44 yearss.
I’m proud of that, but I’m also mindful that withut a free press, our nation would deteroriate into a country without moral courage.

I hope you share the joys of the day with a real vision of how good we are good as people, and how far we need to go, ever mindful that we live in the greatest democracy in the world.