Editor’s Note: I am taking a breather this issue. Too many articles to write. I wrote the follolwing Reflections column in October 2020. I am amazed at how prescient I was

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I am an optimist by nature and see the good in almost everyone I meet, although I must say that I never met Donald Trump.

When Trump was running for office in 2016, I began to see the conservative change coming. In elections past, The Hues would receive notices from the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party. But things were pretty quiet relatively speaking in 2016.

Back in 2013, I attended President Obama’s inauguration through the White House Press Corps, in part. I applied for and received credentials. And The Hues was on the White House press list. We received notifications when the president would be in the Midwest and received copies of his speeches as well as policy pronouncements. The press of color was treated as a peer recognizing that there is a pecking order among the press beginning with the broadcast networks and national correspondents. But we were at least in the game.

But after Donald Trump was elected president, all of that went silent. I haven’t received anything from the White House in four years. It was a different ballgame.