The sad news of Dolly Parton passing away this week brought a universal outpouring of love and admiration for her incredibly impactful life. Well, almost universal. Our state senator, Mike Azinger, took the opportunity to post negative things about her on social media. In her music, her ...
What do you think about all the rain we have been getting? Or the question really should be, what do you think about how much the grass and all the weeds have grown because of the rain? My husband is slowing down physically and mowing the grass is an effort for him. He mows a little, then has ...
“I cannot tell a lie,” young George Washington told his father when asked if he’d cut down a cherry tree. Ever since, Americans have opted to think their first president was a model of truth. Most of us have had the notion that our presidents were honest, even referring to Abraham ...
It was my impression of the Republican party that its members were pro life. Tell me how kidnapping people and putting them in terrible places called detention centers where women and girls are being raped, where babies are being held, where people are dying because they are not getting their ...
In my previous letter in the Sunday, Aug. 23, newspaper, I opined teaching about God and right and wrong, to our children, in our schools, at an early age might help stem the tide of gun violence in America. From the birth of America, until the 1970s, children were taught about God in our ...
There are lots of ways in which Trump is putting America in grave peril, but I think the worst is the Big Lie. He still keeps saying that he won the 2020 election and he’s got some people believing it. He makes his minions say it even though most of them privately know better. This is ...
