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“I would like to meet a woman who knows the difference between Burl Ives and Charles Ives.” — James G. Wasserman When some serious music maven insists the United States…

Eight and one-half months earlier, our 1982 fast-pitch softball season had ended in the kind of disaster coaches, managers and players dread — two beatings in four hours on the…

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and virtually all actions have unintended consequences. Both statements are facts and both need to be considered when we judge the…

by Amy Kerr Hardin “Prevailing wage laws are the best deal for taxpayers. A PWL keeps construction costs down by promoting a high-skilled, high-quality construction workforce that completes jobs on…

Looking at the expanding field of potential presidential candidates, one thing is apparent: Mrs. Clinton is losing ground. Even Bernie Sanders (United Socialists of Vermont – a satellite province of…

By Barry Hastings The President should declare the critically poor condition of our power and transportation (land, sea [water], air) infrastructures constitutes a national emergency of immense magnitude, and declare…

With all the buzz about the recent high court same-sex marriage arguments, a little something to celebrate slipped through the media cracks. The marriage equality decision is weeks, if not…

A hot topic of debate during the pending presidential election will be our nation’s movement to Socialism. Or the “expansion of Big Government,” as Republicans call it; the Social Justice…