Local Opinion

Most of the public and parochial schools in my area started back up this week. So what, one might ask, until one looks at the calendar and realizes it is the second week of August. What happened to summer vacation?

Watching the hearings held by the Jan. 6 committee as it delves into the events at the Capitol last year and what lay behind them, I’ve been struck by what you might think of as the “meta-coverage.” It’s been fascinating to see.

Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) demands recognition as a universal truth with claims both on natural law and natural rights. Its logic is unassailable. It must be, based on the number of people who claim Bill of Rights level protection under it. No one has offered a refutation acceptable to the NIMBY choir.

Here’s a question: When was the last time at least half of Americans said the government in Washington could be trusted to do the right thing all or most of the time?

At long last, it’s finally going to happen.

The bane of retirement is trying to live on a fixed income. At least that is what everyone who is retired believes.

People consider me old-fashioned, even medieval, in my thinking and outlook. I plead guilty.

INDIANAPOLIS—The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, shows just how much venom and poison flow through America’s body politic these days.

Anderson Herald Bulletin

The Charlotte Observer