We had a dog once upon a time 鈥� this would have been Riley 鈥� who took an instant liking to me. I walked in the house from work one day to discover a dog happily wagging its tail and following at my feet around the kitchen.I didn鈥檛 pay much attention. We already had a dog 鈥� good, ...
Every spring I read the stories in this newspaper about high school graduation classes; these stories trumpet the academic achievements of the very top students 鈥� the valedictorians and the salutatorians.The stories are interesting in at least two aspects. First off, I鈥檓 eager to see where ...
A man is entitled to worship as he pleases. What Doug Mastriano does to get right with the Lord is his business. Individual religious preferences are sacrosanct. It鈥檚 in the Constitution.But it鈥檚 fair to make a judgment when a man 鈥� in this case, Mastriano 鈥� drags those preferences into ...
As regular season play nears its end, it鈥檚 time to look forward. As they used to say in Brooklyn, 鈥淲e can鈥檛 wait till next year.鈥� (Actually, they said, about their beloved Dodgers, 鈥淲ait till next year,鈥� in recognition of the fact that 鈥渄em Bums鈥� had once failed to achieve what ...
On this Labor Day 2022, let us remember ...By the time Ethelbert Stewart arrived on Capitol Hill to talk to lawmakers, he was a practiced hand in the struggles between management and labor.In 1922, Stewart was in his 33rd year as chief statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.鈥淚 ...
Campaign season is upon us. Always earnest, sometimes farcical, but now grim as all get-out, politics takes center stage, along with football, football, and, yes, more football.In particular, and despite the best efforts of county Commissioners Scott Dunn and David Lohr (acting as members of ...