This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Kids are smart. We were kids. We were smart. Right? “Smart” doesn’t mean quoting what someone else wrote or finding our way to Tahlequah. Smart...

This Week’s Indepedent Thinker

Small (but not little) weekly newspapers have a reputation for printing recipes, obits, school achievements, and bowling scores. Sometimes there’s a meeting or two,...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Yes, there are plenty of people who questioned Sir Richard Branson’s flight last Saturday morning. A great American pastime is to tell the rich...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Who’d have thought a bank would be an independent thinking institution? Oh, that’s not fair. Our local banks support sports teams and school kids, and...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

New York high school teacher Shaina Harrison is on a mission to explain that having a gun do your talking always comes to no...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Yep, construction materials are astronomically expensive now if you can even find them. When adopted Chinese immigrant, Maggie Grout, was 15 she realized that the...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

This pandemic has been tragic for a long time, so it was with relief that we read about Captain Sir Tom Moore last April....

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Every time we hear “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our country’s anthem, we wish it were “America the Beautiful.” Then at last Wednesday’s inauguration of Joe Biden...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Grizzly Bear is California’s state animal. Its likeness is on the state flag and seal. This is not about grizzly bears, but it happened...