When word spread last week about an imminent Supreme Court retirement, I hoped against hope that it would be Clarence Thomas. No such luck. Replacing Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer with a Biden appointee is really no biggie. Ridding the court of Clarence, and his blatant conflicts of interest, would be a major upgrade – at […]

Vote Washburn Vote for Tyler Washburn for MSAD 75 School Board. Tyler is an experienced prior member of the MSAD 75 Board. He served on the Board for four and a half years as a Student Representative and then as a Board Member. He was the youngest Chair of the Board in the history of […]

Blocked in law school, Black women challenged for Court post.

Truthfully, who among us has not needed a second chance? Recently I sat down with two of our shelter guests at Tedford Housing Warren and Cheryl, to hear, in their own words, what life was like before they became homeless, what their journey has been like since, and their hopes for the future. This became […]

I belong to a monthly men’s group (the Brethren) composed of four Republicans and four Democrats. At a recent meeting, every member seemed to agree that Congress is broken, because bipartisanship is a lost cause. Moreover, every Republican member of the group believes that Biden really did win the election, a stance that puts them […]

At first blush, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine doesn’t look like some flaming hotbed of liberalism. With a picturesque view of Lake Erie and scenic Presque Isle State Park — as well as campuses across the country — it bills itself as “the nation’s largest medical school,” and the “most applied-to medical school […]

Any foot-wanderer in our area draws from a catalog of winter walking. Even the least-dancerly among us can downshift from stride to shuffle, or tap the brakes to sidle over our ever-various forms of snow and ice. A recent two-inch coating of dry snow atop old crust and its near relative, ice, reminded me of […]

Doing better in our economy We live with two realities about our economy — it does a lot of good, producing innovation and opportunities, and too many people, and the earth, struggle. Some seem to reap huge benefits, while according to the United Way, 42% of Americans are ALICE — asset limited, income constrained, employed […]