Opinion
Often, the story isn’t on the field
Of course, now that so many are pandemic-weary and ready again to fill the stands at games, there will be those in-game stories filled with big moment...
Fired for not getting a COVID vaccine
To the editor:I started my employment at Highland District Hospital in May of 2020, when COVID-19 was beginning to show its impact on all of our lives...
Too much dust on the Bible
I remember the first time I heard the words over the radio and being intrigued by the message.“There might be a little dust on the Bible, but do...
The best time of the year
It seems like only last week. April not only meant that the school year was coming to an end, but it also meant something much bigger was coming soon....
Russia’s historical hunger for Ukraine
History repeats itself. What Vladamir Putin is doing today to Ukraine, Joseph Stalin did to Ukraine in the 1930s. It’s called genocide. The leve...
My new favorite smell
Of course, we should have known something was wrong.The nice thing about living in our new condo is that we don’t have the responsibilities of a...
A little trip back in time
It had been several years since I made the drive to Pike Lake, enough that I was not sure I could find my way without using some type of navigational ...
How about a little levity?
As soon as the computer became pretty much a fixture in most abodes around 2000, I began getting a pretty fair amount of emails designed to tug on my ...
The little annoyances of life
Isn’t it annoying when you really need a piece of paper, and you can’t find one?Then you look in the place where you usually store extra p...
The allure of autocracy
The allure of autocracy is on the rise. The easy explanation is that it’s about power and control. The desire for power, it can be said, drives ...
