Columns

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.

Fifty-one years ago, the national Democratic Party and its presidential nominee were characterized as the party of ”acid, amnesty and abortion” in one of the more devastating, effective and enduring slogans in American political history.

Although I am a geologist by trade, I worked for most of my career for a large civil engineering firm, and supported hundreds of roadway/rail/airport/port projects as part of the environmental clearance team.

My cell phone sent me an alert that I was almost at my voicemail limit the other day.

I spend the first half hour of my day reading — or, to be more accurate, deleting — emails.

Thirty-plus years ago, I was what I called a “student of politics.” I loved it. I got a degree in it, only to have that “love” trampled in modern times.

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is obviously a long shot presidential candidate, but he’s refreshing. Unlike most politicians, he speaks clearly and seems smart.

I’ve had a life-long dream that will never be realized. It’s too late, and I’m too late in life to pursue it now.

Every year in late spring, parents of college students all over America travel to university campuses with stylish IKEA storage bags or (in our case) cardboard boxes that once held bulk orders of toilet paper and tortilla chips.

This past weekend, I watched the movie “A Man Called Otto,” the latest brilliant film of Tom Hanks, which is based on the Fredrik Backman novel “A Man Called Ove.”

There is a loneliness epidemic in the United States, but there are some simple ways we can address it.

I’ve made fun of the English language before, and I frankly expected that it would be a long time before I did so again. Well, friends and neighbors, ...

AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels.

Lou Gehrig had two women in his life – his mother Christina and his wife Eleanor. Had the two been able to get along, the personal life of the legendary New York Yankees ballplayer and Hall of Famer would have been less stressful.

Bicycling, in its many forms – whether road, endurance, cross, mountain biking, fat tire, downhill, climbers or e-bike touring – continues to grow in popularity throughout America, and Prescott is no exception.

Being enrolled in two different political parties, I’m pretty sure our state senator Ken Bennett and I wouldn’t agree on too many things.

Newton Minow will always be remembered for a 1961 speech in which he described television as a “vast wasteland.” However, late in life he became less concerned about TV’s wastefulness and more troubled by its very vastness.

It is great to remind readers and citizens alike that vehicle burglaries are taking place. We should always we watchful — for ourselves as well as for our neighbors. But ...