Opinion
The watchers
Current events have demonstrated the power of society to censor our behavior.In sociology class there was this thing called the social mirror, discove...
What about a #MeToo movement for ordinary women
The spotlight shines on Hollywood’s history of sexual harassment of female celebrities by male moguls. Is it time to shine the light on sexual h...
Yes, I miss George W. Bush: Here’s why he looks better with each passing day
In February 2010, just about a full year after Barack Obama took office, a series of billboards mysteriously popped up along Interstate 35 in a town c...
Cars are killing machines
Cars don’t kill people — people kill people. Sound familiar.According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (collected from al...
Even a ‘no doubt’ death penalty is fatally flawed
That innocent people are occasionally sentenced to die is just one of two major problems with capital punishment.Gov. Bruce Rauner is proposing to eli...
A dark and stormy night over Portsmouth
There was a dark and stormy night more than 75 years ago, when the seldom-used Raven Rock Airport near Portsmouth became a lighted field, and by so do...
We’re all hypocrites from time to time
Humans and hypocrisy both begin with the “h” letter. Coincidence or not?One dictionary defined a hypocrite as “a person who indulges...
A year after Ringling’s demise, there’s still work to be done
It’s been a year since Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus finally paid the piper. To say that the price was just is an understatement...
Your best backup plan
Your best back up plan is the one you create connecting with valuable persons who share your passion in life and are very interested in your goals.You...
30 years later, a school shooting survivor looks back
The kids are in their late 30s now, the second-graders who survived when a young woman burst into their classroom in Winnetka, Ill., in May 1988 and o...
