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Reporters Notebook: Remembering 9-11

It’s hard to believe that Friday marked 25 years since terrorists tied to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda flew airplanes into the two World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, with a fourth plane sent into the ground in a field in Pennsylvania due to the bravery of its passengers and likely ...

Editor's Notes: First draft - reporters had a job to do

As people across the country were recounting their memories of Sept. 11, 2001, last week, in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of that tragedy, I realized something. I and others in newsrooms everywhere experienced it differently. When you work in news, especially if it is part of your job ...

Cracking the code: Facts and truth are important

During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first ...

Kiki's Corner: Focus, being positive and understanding others

I’m sure many of us have seen the change in our society through the years. Think about it, since you were a young child and up to today, all the distractions we have around us. It is hard to focus. Of course, there will always be distractions. Social media, opinions, entertainment and other ...

Op-ed: Politics and religion - they still matter!

Politics and religion. Americans should never discuss them. Charlie Kirk certainly did not share this belief. He lived to converse about politics and religion. Perhaps one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived in the minds of man is this notion that we shouldn’t talk about politics or ...