By Jim Heffernan This book was published September 30, 2025 and I read it yesterday.(Feb. 8, 2026) It’s a slim 144 pages, tightly written and a partisan pleasure to read. The book…
Category: Guest Column
Thank You and Please
By Lianne Thompson Who’s got the money, who’s got the power, and what are they doing with it? What’s the cost, who gets the benefit? What’s in it for you and for…
CONVERSATIONS WITH COACH DENISE: Everyone Just Watched – What Our Children Learn From Silence
By Denise Donohue I remember a Tuesday afternoon that smelled like pencil shavings, cafeteria pizza, and desert dust blowing in from the Las Vegas heat. My office sat right next to the…
BUTCH’S BLOG: An Old Man Surfing Through the Storms
By Butch Freedman Let’s start here: each morning that I wake up and I’m still breathing and mobile, I count as a win. After that, I go check out the surf from…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Bad Bunny vs. the Evil Empire
By Butch Freedman That trump fellow, you know, the one whose brain is made of Diet Coke and McDonald’s french fries. Yeah, that one, the clown conspirator, the one with all the…
The Power of Love Still Works – Community Prayer Gathering at White Clover Grange Feb. 14
By LaNicia Duke Many of us can feel it. We know we are in the midst of a shift. We bear the pain of the earth. We know it is not just…
We are the “Illegal” Immigrants Here …
By Jamie Corvus Thank you to those who allowed yourselves to be touched by my last piece of writing. And there were so many of you. Stay with me, if you will. We…
BOOK REVIEW: Caste – The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
I started this review for “Black History Month”, but soon realized the book was more than a book about blacks. Caste refers to the process where a society identifies a portion of…
WORDS OF WISDOM: What Is The 25th Amendment?
By Neal Lemery Recent political commentary mentions the use of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, raising the specter of removing the president from power for reasons of incapacity or disability. What is…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: The Price of Corruption
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.” – Thomas Jefferson By Marc C. Johnson The dizzying blizzard of corruption surrounding the White…