For reasons that will baffle my many detractors, I am often asked for advice about being an opinion journalist. One of my standard responses is: You have to be willing to disappoint your biggest fans. What I mean is that if you start to see your job as telling fans what they want to hear, ...
We find it interesting that what seemed at first to be a pretty stringent shopping cart ordinance is likely to be watered down. Crystal Surdyk, city development director, said the concerns of advocates for the homeless have been heard, with the ordinance to be changed before approval to make sure people will not be losing all of their possessions with this ordinance. "There's already some things that we've seen that we want to change," Surdyk said. "I want to be really, really clear on where this is coming from, because I think there's been some concern and I want to address that ...
Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse. A recent report from the Consumer Federation of America found that Americans lost an estimated $148 billion to "online scams and crimes" in 2025, an increase of nearly 26% from the year ...
Editorial Cartoon 10-15-26
Editorial Cartoon 10-14-26
Churchill said that "wars are not won by evacuations," and sometimes, he might have added, they are simply embarrassing. The U.S. hastily flew its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford in the U.K. for fear of a potential Iranian drone attack, the latest in a series of successful Iranian ...
