I think this time I will let the experts do most of the talking. They can best describe the dangerous situation that our country is in right now. We have been moving toward a coup of our established democratic republic – slowly for several decades and now Project 2025 and Trump’s insatiable ...

I read the Sept. 2 letter to the editor entitled “Settlers, not immigrants, built country” with considerable dismay. First, the writer extols the settlers to the U.S., as if they came to an uninhabited country. He then goes on to reference the “now” immigrants with the absurd ...

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Is there a book that you return to time after time? I do. It’s a novel entitled “Drums Along the Mohawk” by Walter D Edmonds that was originally published in 1936. It remained on the best seller list for two years, second only to Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind.” Right ...

This summer the corn has been especially yummy – worth waiting for. As I write those words, I realize that I have written a fair amount about our favorite golden vegetable in the last 21 years. Let’s just say I’m biased about the buttery, yummy stuff. My mother loved corn on the cob and ...

A divisive, fascist political campaign has targeted transgender Americans for several years. Writing as a cisgender straight male, I see this not only as an attack on these individuals, but as an attack on our democracy itself. Since 2021, state legislatures have proposed 2,492 bills and 265 ...