John Krull: Where are the adults in the room?
The violent attack on the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, raises two important questions.
Morton Marcus: Zoning on ballot in 2023 election
Without taking anything away from the 2022 elections, let’s start thinking about next year. The primaries, the absurdities and the virtues of the candidates, the restrained promotional materials of the money-starved candidates, and the flamboyant eructations of the well-financed will again become tedious.
Dick Wolfsie: THEIRS A PRIZE WAITING OR YOU
Mary Ellen and I promised each other that during our recent vacation we would not check our emails. At dinner each night, we conversed and learned a great deal about each other, things that have happened to each of us since we got our first cell phones in 1990.
Ryan Trares: Reckoning with being behind the times
It doesn’t take much to make me feel old these days.
David Carlson: Putin is smiling
Vladimir Putin is smiling, and that isn’t good news. What Putin is smiling about is a recent development in our country during this election season. As he has hoped, both political parties — Democrat and Republican — have factions within them that question the level of support for Ukraine.
Michael Leppert: Documentary tells uncommon stories about killing
“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man,” is my favorite quote from my all-time favorite western. “Unforgiven” is the Oscar-winning, 1992 Clint Eastwood movie about William Munny, a has-been killer who learns of a $1000 bounty in Big Whiskey, Wyoming that brings him out of retirement.
Letter to the editor: Get out there and vote
To the Editor:
Niki Kelly: State law already clear on required vaccines
I love that insurance commercial where several older women are taping pictures to their “wall” — a nod to Facebook and the trope about technology and senior citizens.
Larry DeBoer: COLA is no joke
First, I congratulate myself for not making a COLA joke. I’m a serious economist. Also, I couldn’t think of one.
Norman Knight: Autumn chores get you thinking
“Fall is my favorite season.” I hear that a lot this time of the year.