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Digging a hole with narrow focus

“There was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the still of the night, wept cold tears.”Father Adolphus Schwartz was the fictional creation of the wayward Roman Catholic F. Scott Fitzgerald. The good Father had a bad case of scrambled marbles. In the final stanzas of ...

Omarosa’s “The Art of the Squeal”

Donald Trump has met his match.Omarosa Manigault-Newman is famously known for being devious, untrustworthy and vengeful.She’s now on the warpath, strategically aiming low blows at the man who made her famous.Omarosa had been a Democrat when she worked in the office of Vice President Al Gore ...

The student perspective

School bells ring soon, and we are already hearing from high schoolers about their stressful lives — ones rife with bullying and, maybe most alarming of all, the demands of studying hard and getting ahead.Such was the gist of a program this past week on National Public Radio. Joshua Johnson ...

The big ‘red wave’ that wasn’t

The battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives is on.It’s nasty, and about to get much nastier in the coming months.Democrats haven’t controlled that chamber since 2010.They’re hopeful that will change after November’s midterm elections.If they manage to flip two dozen ...

Forget about sports, schools should focus on academics

Just because something is done for decades and decades doesn’t mean it has to be done forever. Times change. Move on.My point: What’s the rationale for public schools to continue to field athletic teams? It’s time we reexamine why School District X should play School District Y in ...

Truth takes a holiday

When President Trump travels to one of his campaign speeches, he leaves the truth behind.I’d say he travels light, but he makes sure he takes a satchel-full of attacks, hyperbole, half-truths and downright blarney -- to the delight of his ecstatic crowds.“They just came out with a poll, did ...