Columns

Tim is out of the office, and he left us with three of his favorite Friday Catchall entries from years ago:

When I swallow, knives cut my throat.

Traffic, road conditions, street maintenance and construction are generally areas of great interest for our citizens.

Everyone in the national media this week was worrying about whether Donald Trump was going to be arrested in New York.

It’s true that I love sports, as I’m sure many of you may know. And with Opening Day of the MLB season coming up on Thursday, March 30, you’d think I’d be super stoked, right?

IQs have dropped for the first time in American history, and the experts aren’t quite sure why.

The gauntlet had been thrown down. It was a Wells Lamont work glove and it lay half on the living room rug and half on the laminate flooring. ...

I am a registered nurse in the state of Arizona and practiced for 35 years in Prescott both at the VA Medical Center and the Yavapai Guidance Clinic....

As we await word of a seemingly imminent Trump indictment, it has been highly entertaining to hear his defenders twist themselves into pretzels in order to excuse the fact he paid a porn star $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 election to hide an extramarital tryst.

This is the fourth column about various ways we fuel our modern society’s needs. This series covers the five major energy sources, including “pros and cons” for each, to better prepare you for friendly discussions.

I got an unexpected phone call on the way home from work today. It was the dermatologist’s office and I figured they’d say “all good, see you next year.”

Regardless of how bitter the immigration argument — and the debate routinely sinks to new hostility lows – everyone should agree that open borders must not be allowed to disrupt public education.

The question of whether we will continue to pay sales taxes on groceries is now in the hands of the governor.

On Thursday, March 23, in this space, Jeff Pace offered a litany of imagined horrors, teeing off on the word “woke” as a code word for the deliberate, wanton destruction of our social norms and authoritarian control of our minds.

All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s interesting to see the reaction to the term “woke” in The Daily Courier Rants & Raves from people who suddenly want to define the term down to its narrowest, most benign use.

It’s quandary time again. Back in late 2015, I entered the field of candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

When my three semi-grown daughters were young (and since I work in the lucrative world of public education), we’d spend our spring break holidays riding bikes to the park, making dad-sized pillow forts in the living room and raiding the gift shop at the zoo.

Leading up to World War II, Russell Eugene Christiansen was a life insurance salesman in St. Louis, Missouri. As a civilian, he had no way ...

In just over a month, I’ll be embarking on one of Arizona’s most fabled and sought-after hikes/backpacking trips. I just hope I’m prepared for it!

Nobody these days is happier with Ron DeSantis than Vladimir Putin, who now has two horses in the 2024 Republican race: Trump (naturally) and a coward who talks tough to Disney but quakes at the prospect of confronting a genocidal thug.

This is the third column about various ways we fuel our modern society’s needs. This series covers the five major energy sources, including “pro” and “con” arguments for each, to better prepare you for friendly discussions.

Cooperating with other people who share the same goals as you do shouldn’t be so tough, right?

If you ever needed a reminder that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate, new data from the Anti-Defamation League should more than do the trick.

Your flight is delayed? Blame your government.