Author Archives: Karl Kuban

Today’s interesting article that centered on Plymouth’s population (Do More Than 70,000 people live in Plymouth?) used back of the envelope calculations to estimate the number of Plymouth residents, which was based on a combination of the 2020 US census and estimates of registered voters and inactive voters. The article emphasized the reasonably accurate number […]

The April 12 PI article, “Trump administration pulls funding for Pilgrim Hall work,” details the revocation of a $200,000 grant to Pilgrim Hall Museum that would have helped modernize and preserve four centuries of documents in its archives. Keith Sonderling, the acting director of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, indicated that the […]

Mark Pothier’s commentary on the decision by the town manager to prohibit communication with the PI was important in laying out the history and the unfortunate and inappropriate response from the town to PI’s reporting. That noted, the PI’s response might have been better served not to define the “relationship between government and journalists [as] […]