Best option is not to believe Iran war hysteria I’ve again started to hear the drumbeat of war, this time with Iran. It reminds me of the lead-up to the […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Candidate filings to kickoff election cycle in earnest for 2020
And we thought coping with five Mondays in December was a grind. Next week, it all begins on Monday and lasts until 11:59 p.m. Jan. 25. That is, the candidate […]
Add Iran’s leadership to ash heap of history
Addressing the British Parliament in 1982, President Ronald Reagan outlined a plan for placing the Soviet Union and Marxism-Leninism on the “ash heap of history.” It is an objective President […]
Apathy appears to have faded
Then-candidate Donald Trump told a mostly white rally crowd in Michigan in 2016 that “at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95% of […]
Put your conscience above party in 2020 when time to vote
Many of us will pause today to embrace this start of a new year with resolutions to be better people. But whether we’re willing to do more than say out […]
Put mental illness, addiction at center of homeless solution
Almost like the ebb and flow of tides, homelessness gets our attention and then recedes. It appears since late last summer, though, initiatives have prompted a deeper commitment to meeting […]
Government can get decisions right once it puts politics aside
Say what you want, and we do, government sometimes gets it right. In the past week, two state agencies and Huntington’s mayor took action that deserves more than an honorable […]
New year, but same crisis is still alarming
The political and election flames were fanned all fall with the impeachment of President Trump But how soon we forget the real flames that were fanned by the world’s climate […]
This is ‘The Year of Reading Women’
I’m here to say goodbye to Stephen King. Not that he’s going anywhere. Indeed, I imagine he’s at his desk even now, devising a fiendish fate for some schmuck unlucky […]
Turn over new leaf in 2020: Let’s go vegan
Happy Veganuary, everyone! Veganuary, for the uninitiated, is the month when people around the world pledge to go vegan in order to help stop animal suffering, protect the planet and […]
