I’m curious to understand the logic of the letter writer from Zachary on Oct. 11, blaming the Republicans for the shutdown. The Republican House voted to keep the government open with a narrow ...

Forty-three years ago, in 1982, Detroit was introduced to a wonderful character, Count Scary, played by none other than Mr. Tom Ryan. Count Scary was no ordinary vampire. With his exaggerated ...

Who’s pulling the strings in Boulder council races? Boulder voters deserve transparency about who supports our City Council candidates and what those endorsements imply about their priorities. In 2021 ...

Sen. Mike Lee has built a record of extremism that has brought shame to Utah and harm to our democracy. These are not isolated incidents, but a pattern that should not be ignored. These actions show a ...

Contrary to the opinions of Westmoreland County Commissioners Sean Kertes and Doug Chew, the county is woefully out of step compared with practices in other Southwestern Pennsylvania counties ...

Time is running out. In Colorado, the future of your child’s education isn’t decided in May at graduation — it’s decided in the fall, during something called the Count Window. The Count Window is a ...

Students leave Vista Ridge High School, a District 49 school, at the end of a December day. Last year preliminary numbers from their October student counts that showed decreases in student enrollment ...

Loree and I are headed to India for seven weeks later this month. (We have a house sitter, or I would be reluctant to announce this publicly.) Who knew when planning this trip, that there would be an ...

Kitsap County’s August 2025 primary had a voter turnout of just 28.68%, revealing a serious problem in our democracy. Many skip local elections, thinking their vote doesn’t matter, but the ...

As a boy in the 1950s, I went on several bear hunts in the swamps near Avery Island and have since become an advocate for our official state mammal. In 1987, at the urging of U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...