White: Take a step on the wild side and adopt a Mustang
Wild horses and burros are America’s Western icon, and they are currently filling federal holding corrals by the thousands. These holding corrals have been operated and maintained by the federal ...
Jeb Bladine: Too many jobs for too few candidates
America’s nationwide workforce crisis has triggered a mass waiting game. Businesses and institutions are challenged by the inability to find qualified employees to fill key positions. As a result, ...
Finley: Death penalty a barbaric practice lacking any meaningful purpose
By LAURA FINLEY Of Barry University There is no doubt about Nikolas Cruz’s culpability for the mass murder of 17 people and the injury of 17 others at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas ...
Davis: Not even Supreme Court can save Big Coal's eclipse in U.S.
By REBECCA DAVIS Of Stephen F. Austin State University The U.S. coal industry chalked up a rare win this summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling limiting the government’s ability ...
Anderson: A proactive approach to aging's challenges
Challenges bring out the best in most people, and aging is one of the most onerous challenges we face. We are all aging each day. Add enough days together and we will see our 80s, 90s or even 100s. A ...
Jeb Bladine: Law change allows working pensions
It’s Day 26 of 39 “Dog Days of Summer,” and America is sweltering from coast to coast. The sizzling heat wave finally moderated in the East but not in the Southwest; locally, people are ...
Martin: Boris Johnson's messy legacy of lies, scandals and Brexit
By GARRET MARTIN Of American University Boris Johnson, the now outgoing prime minister of the United Kingdom, had wanted to follow in the footsteps of his idol Winston Churchill. He wanted ...
Back, and Forth: Reciting the joys of the multi-purpose first name
The other night in conversation, I referred to something from the early 1900s as “after the turn of the century,” to which my 26-year-old son dryly asked me if I meant 2021 or 1921. At ...
Offbeat Oregon: Vanport residents built nearly half of US WWII aircraft carriers
During the first year of the Second World War, the conflict in the Pacific was all about aircraft carriers. With a carrier, one could take the fight to the enemy. Without one, one could only huddle on ...
Back, and Forth: You don't need a mullet wig to enjoy the quirk around us
I’ve been thinking a lot about the strange and unusual around us — what you might call “quirk.” Quirk is both quicksilver and quotidian. It can pass in an instant or stand everyday ...
Jeb Bladine: TML talks focus on commercial, traffic
Editorial commentary today summarizes a topic — Three Mile Lane development — that spans a half century of public planning and private development, and has generated an encyclopedia-size body ...
Wesner: Big tech is steamrolling America's newspapers
By BRETT WESNER Of the National Newspaper Association Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society — especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played ...
Myers: Webb a perfect example of selfless collaboration
By WINSLOW MYERS Of the War Preventive Initiative On Tuesday, July 12, as the horrors of war in Ukraine ground on, chewing up soldiers and civilians alike in its indifferent maw, the Jan. 6 Committee ...
Chenoweth: Envisioning a place to nurture new ideas
Mac has timely opportunity for industrial jobs incubator
Lowery: Could Ron DeSantis rain on Trump presidential parade?
By RICH LOWERY Of The National Review It was only a matter of time before Ron DeSantis’ rising star ran into the unmovable object of Donald Trump’s will to continue to dominate the GOP. A ...
