Letters to the Editor: Tax articles appreciated

I would like to commend Mark Miller for his cogent articles on property taxes. Although his writing and accompanying diagrams were clear,...

Passing on a love of board games

I grew up in a family of gamers. From a young age, I was playing Skip-Bo and Phase 10,...

Mourning a busted bracket but this time from Spain

As another year of March Madness makes us all a bit crazy, it’s time for this reporter to empty his notepad.

Some ‘wonderful’ seasonal courtside observations

We all know a number of people who think March is “the most wonderful time of the year.” And now you have...

Angelkeep Journals: The darkness of Good Friday revisited

Easter is coming soon. It should be the grandest of holidays on earth. However Christmas takes that role. It seems market dollars...

Vietnam’s three wars still haunt us all

Few times in the last hundred years has our country not been engaged in armed hostilities. Today, although not in a declared...

Experiencing kindness at a time we have needed it

No act of kindness — no matter how small — is ever wasted.  Those words summarize the moral lesson...

One giant leap into the 21st century for this old Boomer

One small step for most. One giant leap for others. That would be me. The time had come. Others,...

Angelkeep Journals: Massive cicada invasion, and other hokey hoax

Now that spring has arrived, regardless of the doctrines of Punxsutawney Phil, who, by the way has only a 39% accuracy over...

Criminal justice policy in the crosshairs of the session

Crime is a perennial issue already prominent in this election year’s conversation. So, before memory fades and the pitched political battles of...