Columns

I’ve had this column on the back burner for a while, but I feel now is the time to share my thoughts on what I think are some of the greatest shows in TV history.

Imagine, if you will, a tranquil late-autumn evening.

I’ve been a member of the Williams family for about five months now. Let me say right out loud that, yes, I’m a dog, but I prefer the more formal designation of Canis lupus familiaris.

I didn’t put on the Cardinals-Chargers game Sunday, and it’s not because I grew up as, and still am, a fan of what is now the Washington Commanders.

Vinyl records are making a comeback, and it’s not just nostalgic old fogies who are driving the trend. According to Readers Digest UK, millennial and Gen Z consumers are digging the distinct sound of vinyl ...

The massacre this past weekend at Club Q, an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, was hardly shocking given our current politically acrimonious and poisoned climate.

It’s easy to understand why conversations have centered on health care in recent years.

Thanksgiving came this year with some hopeful news about the purchase of the Gateway Mall and its possible rejuvenation.

In the smoldering wake of what can only be called a Republican debacle, many pundits much better schooled in politics and history weighed in with their opinions on what happened.

• THANKS – I am very thankful this year.

Thursday, if you had a nice meal, thank the Pilgrims. They made Thanksgiving possible.

Today, people from all walks of life - from the many different faiths, races and ethnicities who inhabit this wonderful place we call America - will gather together and give thanks, grateful for the blessings they’ve received over the last 12 months.

Life gives us plenty to complain about, and often that drowns out what we should be grateful for.

Please pardon me, but I am always overcome by mawkish sentimentality at this time of year.

I have yet another outstanding solution to a vexing problem. I know my efforts will be ignored, but I feel an obligation to offer my best thinking anyway.

My birthday was last Tuesday and there was only one thing I wanted to do to celebrate. And that was to go look at some rocks!

One of the most enduring justifications for a combat operation was uttered by an Army major in the war in Vietnam in 1968: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”

In this year’s school board elections as well as the election of the state schools superintendent, a leading platform for some candidates was the elimination of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social/Emotional Learning (SEL) from our schools.

It’s a helpless feeling when your car won’t start. It’s even worse when you’re waiting to roll through Prescott as Float No. 50 in the Veterans’ Day Parade, and there’s a Vietnam veteran sitting in the front seat next to you looking forward to being a part of it.

When it comes to sappy holiday movies, you either scorn them as you would another pair of reindeer-themed socks, or you eagerly binge on offerings such as “My Southern Family Christmas,” produced by Hallmark.

There comes a time in one’s life when change seems to happen more and more.

Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil. But that’s absurd.

I’ve been using English all my life, and I still chafe at the rules I have to follow to use it “properly” according to the rule-makers. There are some languages that are more citizen-friendly than ours.

The whole concept of a bed and breakfast is pretty ingenious, and fits almost perfectly with my lifestyle.

Majestic mountains are not the only treasure in the Arizona Central Highlands. We are also blessed with some outstanding singing and dancing talent in this region.