The great climate cover-up
Being a climate denier does not absolve elected representatives of the responsibility to set aside personal prejudices and act in the national interest.
The national...
Surviving gloom
We survived January, all 31 days. I am writing this on the morning of February 3; by the time you read it, February 6...
Lasso the money
To the senate Republicans,
Now that you and your party have crowned our first monarch, we know that big money is what determines your loyalty...
Mni Wiconi
“With today’s prudent rule, we are protecting America’s waterways and providing certainty to hardworking farmers, ranchers, and landowners.” – Rep. Steve Womack
Here is how...
Corporate transgressions
Editor,
We are now experiencing, in the U.S., the near completion of a corporate coup, roughly 50 years in its construction: a takeover by our...
Climate justice
“Now is the time to make justice a reality for all.” – MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., led the struggle for justice with words...
Ideas for Park’s Vision planning
Editor,
The Parks Commission, while outsourcing their bookkeeping and to approve their quarterly financials for 2019, also pledged three months ago to “step back” to...
Saving a bridge that needs saving
Editor,
With the building of a new, wider bridge now underway in a different location, the plans call for removing the old span.
Anyone whose heart...
Doing more with less
Editor,
Thanks for your mention about the Cheryl Maples Plaque.
We have decided that the $6200 requested by the artist is too much for volunteers to...
Looking for a lost word
There used to be another word in the dictionary between the words direful and direwolf. (I am using American Heritage College Dictionary 4th ed.). It was a perfectly...