editorials

Everyone counts

The importance of the Census cannot be overstated. The demographic information that it collects determines who gets how much political power in Congress and in the states. The numbers steer more than …

Millennium’s stink

The smell of money was in the air. In December 2015, with great fanfare, Millennium Pipeline announced its Eastern System Upgrade. They boasted that they would be spending $275,000,000 on the …

Factually: How the story lends itself to misinformation

{Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The Poynter Institute and The International Fact-Checking Network and is republished here with permission. We offer this to readers as …

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Mail-in voting: fact checking our opinions

Last week, we asked our Facebook followers what they thought about mail-in voting. The answer was: a lot. Mirroring a conversation happening on a national scale, many responded that mail-in voting is …

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COVID-19 is testing our mettle

COVID-19 brought with it considerable stress and, as the months have unfolded, more than a few points of contention. Coping with contention is difficult even when not in the midst of a public health …

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Letters to the editor

'What’s become of us?' and more

Letters to the editor September 17 to 23

'A most precious resource' and more

Letters to the editor from September 10 to 16

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my view

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White House response to pandemic violates Universal Declaration of Human Rights

After World War II, the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for the advancement of certain freedoms considered fundamental to all people. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired …

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‘The result of a harsh and sobering reality’

The year 2020 has taken all of us by storm. COVID-19 has forced everyone to reassess life, work, education, where to live, finances, etc. Your county government has been re-evaluating, as well. …

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river talk

Slug love

The way out here

Precious piebald

In My Humble Opinion

At a loss for words

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Blogs

The race to destroy ourselves

Who will win the race to destroy mankind and the other creatures of the Earth? The nuclear powers or the populous countries that waited too long to confront the coronavirus? Nuclear weapons had a …

An American strawberry patch

Publisher’s Log: May 30, 2020 We have launched our first monthly conversation experiment. With the editorial “Moving the conversation forward” we proposed and tossed out the …

Musings on a Monday morning

Publisher’s Log: April 20, 2020 It’s a funny phenomenon. The pace of the day has increased. There is much to do. My day is over in a flash and when I think back that last Sunday was …

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