Columns

Put your hands together for sane mature bipartisan centrist adulthood. It’s a whole lot better than apocalyptic bluster.

Tina Turner, who died last month, was a pioneer and an artist who personified the word innovative.

Ever since my first column, readers of a certain bent have been trying to goad me into the “Climate Change” fight.

I am beginning to suspect that many folks who grew up in Prescott had Penny Nicholas as their Kindergarten or first-grade teacher.

In a much anticipated chess match in February, 1996, the world champion Garry Kasparov faced IBM’s Deep Blue, the most advanced chess-playing machine.

Last week I wrote about why more grocery stores don’t locate in the Quad Cities. My answer: our shopping habits don’t support them enough. Dollars and foot traffic. But there's more...

Social Security is toast. So is Medicare.

Along about the mid-1950s, a young boy and his grandfather visited the Pea Ridge National Military Park in Benton County, Arkansas.

As I have mentioned in previous columns, I look forward to bathing-suit shopping with my daughters almost as much as major dental surgery without anesthesia.

As we conclude budget approval for Fiscal Year 2024, which begins on July 1, questions arise about the City of Prescott’s tax structure, and how we are funded.

It’s a positive trend that I hope continues: the resurgence of summer picnics.

Over the past few years, I’ve wondered about the American psyche. I question whether citizens of this country still have the courage and grit of Americans past. I ran into a man at the local gym ...

We hear and read a lot about Social Emotional Learning (SEL), usually linked with Critical Race Theory, and considered by some to be a move to indoctrinate our kids, supplant parents, and even to “groom” our children into some sort of sexual deviancy.

If my math is correct, the 2024 Republican presidential contest is starting to look like the Marx brothers’ stateroom scene.

This Memorial Day, May 29, which is at the tail end of a three-day weekend, is not about what you may think.

May has been a month of exploration into what, for me, are some of Prescott’s most unique offerings.

My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion.

Over the years I’ve heard the call: “We need more grocery stores.”

Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with me for a one-hour interview. I started by praising him for keeping Florida largely open during COVID.

With the season finale of “FBI Most Wanted” Tuesday night, all of my favorite television programs have wrapped up another season, and I’m looking forward to the return of the three Dick Wolf Tuesday night productions – “FBI,” “FBI International” and “FBI Most Wanted” – this fall, along with my other small-screen favorites of “SWAT,” “Fire Country” and “Blue Bloods” on Friday nights, “The Equalizer” on Sunday nights, and “NCIS” on Monday nights.

I still remember one of the houses that my parents almost bought back in 1970.

I know all of my loyal readers have been chomping at the bit to read the third and final part of my soul-soothing trip to Havasupai (I’m kidding), so here it is!

Every year, polls show that a large number of Americans don’t know why we celebrate Memorial Day.

Since I’ve retired, I don’t pay attention to individual days the way I used to. I don’t remember anything about last Monday, for example. As far as I know, nothing happened on that day ...

Democrats in Philadelphia just came through a bruising mayoral primary, which is basically the city’s general election.