07.27.2025 Editorials Editorial: When leaders lead, there’s cause for applause “Government isn’t the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” So said President Ronald Reagan, a man who could always break serious issues down to a pithy phrase that resonated...
07.13.2025 Editorials Editorial: Ignoring the facts The United States has taken a U-turn away from producing clean, sustainable energy and back to a near-total focus on burning fossil fuels. The vehicle for this return to...
07.04.2025 Editorials Editorial: Independence Day 2025 On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation: “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real...
06.29.2025 Editorials Editorial: Those damn kids The mini-rant above, was an opinion Socrates had about 2,500 years ago. He was a wise and tolerant fellow, but everyone’s entitled to a bad day now and then....
06.15.2025 Editorials Editorial: Father’s Day 2025 In America, many families have, over several generations, seen a sea of change in how masculinity is defined. The changes in the way fathers have taken active roles in...
05.26.2025 Editorials Editorial: Our duty to remember Our editorial pages applauded President Donald Trump’s move, during his first term, to extricate U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan. And we applauded President Joe Biden for making the policy...
05.18.2025 Editorials Editorial: Support our schools and vote Next Tuesday, local voters will make decisions critical to the future of area schools by casting ballots on their respective districts’ 2025–2026 budgets. Over the years, we have consistently...
05.11.2025 Editorials Editorial: The month of hope “May is the month of expectations, the month of wishes, the month of hope.” Though not found in any of her writings, that quote is commonly attributed to 19th-century...
04.27.2025 Editorials Editorial: Lend a hand to support our libraries With so much attention focused on the noisier disruptions happening at the federal level — from tariff turmoil to teetering T-bills — it’s easy to overlook some of the...
03.09.2025 Editorials Editorial: Checking the trolls At the height of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, the term “outside agitator” became something of a rallying cry for opponents of equal rights. It was...