I’ve long been annoyed and increasingly angered by a message from our government on radio, TV and other forms of communication in and around New York City, where I live and work: “If you see something, say something. If it doesn’t seem right, it probably isn’t.” The message often ends: “Be careful, be safe.” And […]

The election was only six weeks ago, and New Year’s Day is less than three weeks away. This is supposed to be a quiet time, filled with holiday gatherings, family meals, festive songs and a carol with the word “silent” in its title. Not this year. No one can say all is calm, all is […]

In a March 2014 letter to CIA Director John Brennan, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, wrote, “… on only his third day in office, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491 ending the use of abusive interrogation techniques. On Dec. 9, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, in a speech on the Senate floor on the newly released Senate […]

Last summer, my family faced a challenging situation as both of our family cars ”“ on their last leg for a while ”“ finally died. While I was able to walk to work, my husband’s job in south Sanford was too far to walk. York County Community Action’s WAVE program came to our rescue. Initially, […]

Recent events have taught many of us a key fact about the criminal justice system that we may not have understood. The most important element of the system is not the police, the judge or the jury. It is the prosecutor. The prosecutor decides on sending cases to trial, the crime charged, the potential punishment, […]

Ben Franklin never served as president, never took up arms during war, and never held public office outside of the old Pennsylvania Assembly, which was essentially a subsidiary of the British Parliamentary system. Yet he’s on the $100 bill. Not bad for a guy who looked like a dope-smoking sock puppet. I’m reading historian H.W. […]

With the defeat of Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, not a single Democrat from the Deep South will hold a Senate seat come January. That stark fact represents the last chapter of a long story that has been altering American politics for more than a half-century. As recently as six years ago, Landrieu polled one-third […]