Opinion

Like manna from heaven, the administration keeps on providing material that leads to more embarrassment for itself.

I attended the recent Hernando County commissioners meeting to lend a voice to the trapping of animals, specifically cats. I had expected a debate on the merits of lending traps to the merits of the managing veterinarian recommendation that the practice...

The last time this writer visited this topic was five years ago. The first time was in the last century — five columns overall. It never gets resolved.

Sometimes life takes us for a ride, an emotional high that puts us far above the clouds.  I’ve experienced just such a moment, and it came with the woman who brought me into this world, loved me, cared for me, nurtured me and prepared me for the trip we...

Forty years ago this week, The Washington Post – and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein” – took home a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the Watergate scandal.

Eight months ago on Sept. 9, 2012, the anniversary of the worst domestic attack on the United States, four Americans were murdered, including the ambassador to Libya, during an attack in Benghazi.

Times have changed. In the past several decades, parents have shifted from having faith in the teacher’s word. Today parents listen to their child’s version of what happened at school as if it is the gospel truth. This change of attitude of parents is...