“Rod Stewart Hair”
“I like your hair!” a woman at the party said.
Opinions
We have now hit November, which means the holiday shopping season is hitting full stride, in a sprint until the end of the year, when things will suddenly drop off.
Paraphrasing the words of a mentor in the newspaper business, Harris Honsey, come January and February you start to think that nobody...
There is too much violence in America—gun violence in particular. The mass murders in Las Vegas brought the gun control debate to renewed prominence. There are between 12,000 and 13,000 gun deaths from homicide and accidents each year in the U.S. That’s tragic. How can we reduce those numbers?
I’m...
We love Halloween. What other night can you dress like a hot dog and eat all your favorite childhood sweets without having someone judge you? The problem is, we may love it a little too much.
According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend around $9.1 billion—that’s “billion”...
Just when you think you have me figured out, it is time to throw you all a curveball, of sorts.
I was saddened and bemused by reading and hearing the backlash to President Trump’s call to a Gold Star widow, after the attack in northern Africa left four services members dead.
In Trump’s defense, I...
A Layman’s Review
The climate debate will be in and out of the news frequently now that the U.S. has withdrawn from the Paris Accord. I very much sympathize with the sincere efforts being made to make good choices affecting our weather and environment. One of the biggest sales tools relied on by...
That could be the rallying cry for fans of the Milwaukee Brewers (myself included), as they kept us entertained until the penultimate game of the season, wondering if they could somehow sneak into the playoffs in a rebuilding year, in which “the experts” had all written them off before the season...
A few years ago, when I started trying to understand public policy and politics, one thing I tried to do was identify key differences between liberal and conservative thinking. I read a lot and wrote a bit. I lined up many sources of conflict between the competing philosophies dominating our nation...
A dozen years ago, the preface to a report on federal election reform began with these words: “Polls indicate that many Americans lack confidence in the electoral system, but the political parties are so divided that serious electoral reform is unlikely without a strong bipartisan voice.”
I can...
While no one should ever say “I know it’s real because I saw it on the internet,” everyone should be able to say, “I know it’s real. I read it in the newspaper.”
Real newspapers reporting real news have never been more important or more valuable to readers and communities.
This week, newspapers...
“Real Newspapers, Real News” is the theme of this year’s National Newspaper Week (Oct. 1-7.) Indeed, there’s always been lots of “real” at newspapers. Real stories, real journalism, real work, real deadlines, real honesty, real facts, real changes and, now, real threats.
This is the 77th annual...
