Opinion

It’s time to let go of the anchor in your life

Body Imagine you are swimming while holding a heavy anchor which is pulling you under water. What would you do? Of course, you would let go of the anchor to keep from drowning. Maintaining your grip on the anchor would lead to certain disaster.
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Letter to the Editor: School board and bond elections

Body To the Editor: Help me understand how we have let the public school system wage a war against the taxpayers and parents who either have had kids in school or currently do? Why do we have board and bond elections at times when very few are paying attention?

Why the measles outbreak keeps me up at night

Body Since the beginning of this year, measles cases have been reported in 11 states spanning both coasts and heartland. The situation warrants enough concern that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning to doctors about renewed measles risk.
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Government debt vs. Stein’s Law

Body On March 23, the U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill, presumably bringing an end to months of congressional combat, stopgap measures, etc., by accepting the House version of that bill without amendments that would require renegotiation.
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A glaring case of death by government cycle of approval

Body In 2022, The Daily Beast reports, Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) headlights for automobiles became legal in the United States -- but still aren’t available because, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation says, conflicting National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulations...
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Generation Z: What’s a paper route?

Body Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z. Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way out, and we have seen the last days of a work ethic being a virtue.
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Suggestion for candidates: Turn those lemons into lemonade

Body “What’s crazy,” Jon Stewart noted in his Feb. 12 return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, “is thinking that we’re the ones as voters who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidate’s job to assuage concerns, not the voter’s job not to mention them.
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