Columns

VIRUS — Schools have what I think is the toughest challenge, when it comes to preventing the spread of COVID-19.

The new city hall purchase has been a long-time coming.

In the Quad Cities region we are pumping over 4 billion gallons a year more than is being returned to our water supply.

It’s been a rough week for conservatives, Republicans and all Americans.

During his anything-but-typical address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden used the word “democracy,” over and over again.

Scientific American describes my mother to a T.

On a windy, rainy day a few years ago my wife and I found paper money smearing across the windshield of our vehicle.

I’ve been hacked. Officially. Someone pretending to be me — go figure — has applied for unemployment benefits in my name.

It’s hard these days to keep track of all the decrepitude in public life, so forgive me if I highlight some new sleaze that has likely escaped your notice.

In case you have not heard, a book honoring the best of Dr. Ron Barnes’ columns in The Daily Courier is being compiled by people close to him. Following is the forward I wrote for it:

As a Sunday School teacher, I taught my three-to-five-year-olds a little song about friendship: “Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.”

During his anything-but-typical address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden used the word “democracy,” over and over again.

Signs naming Highway 89 — from Wickenburg through Prescott and to north of Chino Valley — as the “Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial Highway” will be going up next month, thanks to a Brit.

Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning.

Since you asked, my niece Claire is expecting her first baby in August. Her sister Emma is expecting her second child in October.

The annual refugee resettlement kerfuffle is underway.

My wife, daughter and I usually drive over to Las Vegas two or three times a year.

My recent trip to Florida was glorious for one simple reason: it was normal.

In the wake of recent mass shootings, President Joe Biden managed to avoid being blown over by a gentle breeze in the White House Rose Garden to announce several marginal executive actions on gun control that were met with tepid applause from the left and bulging forehead veins on the right.

Pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting people to better understand why they won’t take the simple step of protecting themselves and their fellow citizens.

As a nearly 35-year journalist I can pinpoint the night — 29 years ago — when my feelings for first-responders grew into, let’s call it, true “respect.”

He was supposed to be a puppy. At least that’s what I’d been looking for when I drove into the Humane Society parking lot.

Responding to the consequences of President Biden’s wildly out-of-control border mess, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued the administration in the U.S. District Court of Arizona.

Much discussion of late has focused on probable scarce area water resources as it relates to our future and housing development.

As graduation looms, my son Gideon has been named both salutatorian and Wittiest Boy of the Cornersville (TN) High School Class of 2021.