(Charlie Riedel | AP photo) In this July 22, 2005, photo, German workers Gerhard Buchar, right, and Winfried Hagenau, left, along with National Park Service employee, Darin Oestman, use pressure washers to clean around the face of Thomas Jefferson at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
George has been an editorial writer, columnist and blogger for The Tribune's Opinion Section since 2002 (with a four-year diversion to do the same things for The Buffalo News in Buffalo, N.Y.).