Watchful eyes on worldwide elections The world is going to witness elections on a mass scale. Half the world’s population — about 4 billion people from more […]
Opinion
I got a flip phone and tried to get by without my smartphone
by Seth Lavin About three months ago, I bought a flip phone and turned off my smartphone for good. I am part of a trend — interest […]
Society needs to take a breather
by Kevin Frazier Patience is a virtue. It’s a simple refrain I learned well in Mrs. Campbell’s class — rather than read the instructions on a pop […]
Contradictory diet advice makes healthy eating harder
by F.D. Flam ’Tis the season of wavering New Year’s resolutions. And 2024 might be an especially hard time to keep to a new diet because there […]
A road rage horror story, a child’s murder and lessons for us all
by Robin Abcarian The killing of 6-year-old Aiden Leos on an Orange County freeway is a haunting and cautionary tale. The series of events that led to […]
You whining about Taylor Swift at football games won’t break your kid. But it is a wasted opportunity
by Heidi Stevens Barring a cataclysmic event, like the flight from her Tokyo tour getting delayed, Taylor Swift is very likely to be at the Super Bowl […]
W.Va. killed the death penalty 60 years ago — leave it dead
West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair is among the lawmakers clamoring to bring back the death penalty in the Mountain State, but doing so would be a […]
U.S. retaliation for American deaths shouldn’t be driven by war fever
by Daniel DePetris Until this past weekend, the roughly 45,000 U.S. troops based in the Middle East were able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the […]
Iowa and New Hampshire add to the case for electoral reform
by Reinhold Ernst The problem with statistics is that they can be manipulated to support or refute any argument, and the Iowa caucus results are no exception. […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 3
Good: SB 175 — updates offenses of extortion and attempted extortion. It specifically adds “or other thing of value” (understood to include sexual acts) to the list […]
