BY DIANE DIMOND Don’t bother wishing for world peace in the year ahead. It is never going to happen. There will always be pockets of turmoil and terrorism. Innocents will continue to lose their lives in places such as Syria, Pakistan and South Sudan and, yes, here in the United States — in the violent, […]
BY MARK ELLIOT This holiday season, for the first time ever, shoppers are buying more of their gifts online than in brick-and-mortar stores. Forty-seven percent of Americans are doing their shopping on the internet, compared to 37 percent who say they still prefer conventional retailers. As consumers move online, the manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit […]
To the Editor, I am writing in support of my dear friend, Roberta Doremus, of Tallman. So much has been said publicly that does not show the true Roberta. This woman has devoted herself to her husband through good times and not. She has raised upstanding children whom she adores, along with her grandchildren. She served her job for […]
BY ED TIMPERLAKE AND RIBBIN LAIRD Thirty years ago, President Reagan won reelection by a landslide and then led the United States into the final phase of our Cold War victory over the Soviet Union. If America’s 40th president were alive to see Russia’s current resurgence and its all-too-familiar policy of intimidation against Europe, he would know exactly what to […]
OP-ED BY MARK PETERLIN Franklin Roosevelt’s first vice president, former Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, famously said of the vice president position, it wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit.” The reason? Because unless the president is incapacitated in some fashion, there is almost nothing to do. The only reason that there is a “vice this,” a […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Following my recent column about racial tensions in America, I got an email from Gary L. Hoe, of Albuquerque, which made me re-think what our founding fathers had in mind when they established this country. Hoe reminded me of a quote from Benjamin Franklin, attributed to the statesman as he left the […]