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Local Commentaries

U.S. Education Department Provides Valuable Service

To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing in response to a recent column by Star Parker on April 3, 2025. Titled, “Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP”. This article has a number of fallacies. Star refers to the NEA (National Education Association) as controlling education, along ...

Rhubarb Is Up!

Yesterday when I looked out my back door, I could see that my rhubarb plants were up and growing. Today, unfortunately they are under a layer of snow. That is Spring! Several years ago, an employee who worked for my son wanted to get rid of some rhubarb plants. She dug them up and brought ...

Change Of Life Prompts A Counseling Visit

I received a call from a man named Leo. He was referred by his neighbor friends. He stated that he was retired and anytime would work for an appointment. We agreed to a mutually agreeable time in two days. Mornings worked for him, he was “an early bird.” Included in phone calls about ...

Keeping Up With The Day

Where to start? Where to start? Tariffs, the assault on free speech, the indiscriminate firing of thousands of federal workers, the elimination of inspectors general at federal agencies, the retributive targeting of perceived enemies of the president, the threats to major law firms having the ...

Due Process Rights Being Violated

Our Constitution guarantees due process to every person, whether a citizen or not. This means we all have the right to a hearing before a judge if suspected of breaking the law. But our president, himself a convicted felon, doesn’t care about such things. No, Donald Trump is not bound by ...

Hands Off Of My Pork

Political corruption is everywhere present – apparently a consequence of human nature we must constantly guard against. Nowhere is humanity free from corrupt politicians or people who believe it is their privilege to use the power of the Government to forcibly take from those who created the ...