Mayor Kim Ecklund is continuing her push for state help with the city’s homeless. Ecklund’s requests to the state go beyond requests for reimbursement for costs the city paid cleaning up homeless encampments throughout the city in 2024. In her most recent letter to Bonnie Lockwood, ...

If you ever turned on the TV in the 2000s after midnight, you might have seen an informercial for P90X. The exercise program promised shredded abs and bulging biceps for anyone who pushed themselves to their limits for 90 days of 90-minute workouts. So it may come as a surprise that its ...

The title above is a lyric from a song by Jimmy Buffett that was titled, “He Went to Paris,” and as I sometimes do when I hear certain song lyrics, I often feel some of them were directed specifically toward me. In my nearly 72 years of life, I’ve had good times and bad, I’ve met many ...

It seemed like it might be an ordinary day, Wednesday, February 12. My friend Cara was at home in Lakewood, in the chair that had become her world, texting her friends since speaking had become impossible. That’s the thing about ALS. The brain stays robust—in Cara’s case, a mighty brain ...

The 1964 death of Kitty Genovese profoundly affected my life. I never met the young woman, but her name has lived in my heart for 60 years. So, when CBS Sunday Morning mentioned her name last weekend, it got my attention. Big time. I sat straight up in my recliner. The show airs a short ...

Writing a book was on his bucket list. For Bradley Barmore writing was cathartic and helped with his personal transformation. After completing an Ironman Triathlon, details were still there, and about two weeks later, he began the arduous writing task. But Barmore didn’t want to ...