Category: Editorials

Pageant/Sports Etiquette = Life Etiquette   I had a lot of comments on last week’s column concerning pageants. Comments ranged from the fact that so many girls don’t know how to dress…

Pageants are so much more than …. just pageants This past weekend was the annual Miss Watermelon Pageant and Tiny Miss to Princess Watermelon Pageant. It was fabulous; both pageants ran seamlessly….

When the lights go out I’m often prompted into contemplation by the task of collecting answers for the “Question of the Week,” not so much the task itself, but the answers to…

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist   Energy production has been the subject for warfare or fueled wars for at least 150 years. The earliest I can recollect is the Franco-Prussian War of 1870….

There’s a country song named “Voices” that explains how he (the singer) walks around hearing voices in his mind. The voices are from his parents and grandparents and the lessons that they…

Written and submitted by Dominic M. Calabro and Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux The cornerstone of our constitutional democratic republic is protecting citizens’ right to full and public notice when their elected…

I’ve often mentioned, and written, that I wake up early every morning and one of my morning rituals is listening to motivational speeches. Whether it be inner strength, inner success, business success,…

(The following column is a re-write of a column I wrote two years ago. I came across it again and thought it worth updating and running again.) One Sunday morning during church…

Happy New Year! 2021 has come and gone and we find ourselves staring 2022 straight in the face. My favorite New Year’s childhood memories find me spending every New Year’s Eve with…

I didn’t think much about falling when I was a kid, though I did plenty of it. Most of the time, I popped right back up and went about my business. I…

Make sure you have the true Christmas Spirit   With Christmas right around the corner it is so easy to get wrapped up in Santa Claus and presents. With so little time…

Never in my lifetime did I expect to witness the federal government assert forced control over the health choices of private individuals. And I surely didn’t expect a county in my own…

Are newspapers dying out? I think not   There has been much talk in today’s world of the internet and high-speed knowledge that the printed newspaper is dying out. Some think that…


So many times in life we are caught up in our feelings about what we don’t have in life and miss so much of what we do have. So many times, we…

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about the problems with the “supply chain.” From what I’ve heard, there’s a lot of blame to go around for these problems. Seems to me there’s…