IMPERIA, Italy — From the veranda of a couple’s vacation home is a stunningly beautiful view. Brightly painted modest homes dot the high hills along the shore of this city on the Italian Riviera. On a sunny afternoon with nary a cloud in the sky, the Mediterranean Sea is blue all the way ...

After extended research into the reasons progressives have developed an unreasoning hatred for Donald Trump I think I have discovered the deep seated source of that hate. It’s not that he is a populist looking to return government to the people, nor is it the fact that he is a brash ...

It’s just past 10:00 a.m. and Old Tom is standing in my backyard. He has been a shoveling, bending, tugging figure out there for almost 20 years. Like me, Tom moves slower today than when he first agreed to help me. Today he is wearing a floppy hat, jacket, Bermudas and work boots, his ...

As required by the federal government, state testing has once again come upon our schools. Over the next few weeks New York State children in grades three through eight will be sitting for assessments in Mathematics and English Language Arts. Fifth and eighth graders will also be taking a ...

It always amazes me when I attend one of these. That local school kids can put on such an exceptional performance combined with all of the choreography and building of stage sets–is a great testament to our system of public education. As a grandparent of kids so involved, it makes me not a ...

This is a letter I sent to U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy. I cannot believe Congress is considering a bill to defund NPR/PBS (No Partisan Radio Partisan Services Act) Is Congress really going to waste time trying to limit these broadly accessible media outlets that provide preschool children’s ...