Opinion

Letter to the editor; A word of, I don’t know, encouragement, comfort, hope. I’m not saying the National Guard in...

By Stephen Smoot On April 17, 1861, newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln faced a nightmare scenario.   In the Washington...

We strive at the Public Service Commission to resolve complaints in the simplest, fairest, and most expedient manner possible, consistent...

First Published on 06/10/2015   Pap raised guinea pigs. Cute little animals, like rats or hamsters. I remember Pap telling...

Marxism sparked most of the worst mass murders of modern times, erased culture, defiled religion, and has served as a...

Shakespeare quotes aside, in the editorial supporting President Trumps first 100 days (This Is Going to Hurt, 5-7-25) the writer...

Next month, two holidays with origins in the United States Civil War will occur one after the other in the...

First Published on 06/03/2015                              Pap had two pistols. I’ve told the story of his Colt .25 semiautomatic, his “piskill”. He...

“What did he know, and when did he know it?”   This 1973 question, which came from the mind of...

First Published on 05/27/2015 Seventeen dad-blamed tomato plants. I wanted six or eight at most, but now there’s seventeen planted....