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Local Commentaries

I Wish This Were 2025

I am tired of the political campaign already. I wish it were 2025, and that we were over with it. Whether we like it or not, this year’s Presidential election is looking like it will be a rerun of 2020…and we have all been down that trail once before. The nation doesn’t need to go ...

Biden, Trump Aren’t Too Old To Be President

A special counsel won’t file particular criminal charges against Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. One reason is that Biden “will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special ...

When Is The Right Time To Sign Up For Medicare?

Question: Should I be signing up now for Medicare now that I am turning 65 in August 2024 and wondering about all this information about Medicare I see on TV? Answer: First, I want to say; “Happy early birthday.” I know that August sounds a long way off, but it will come quicker than we ...

Bridging The Migrant Information Gap

As someone who has traveled parts of the Pan American Highway — a road that starts in Alaska and ends at the tip of Argentina — and who has spent a lot of time in South America, I’ve been keenly interested in the immigrant crisis at the United States border. I am familiar with the Darien ...

Show Your Love

I got to thinking about Valentine’s Day when my son’s bedroom stove overheated. When they got home from work their bedroom was more than 90 degrees. When he told me about it my mind went back to a Valentine’s Day many years ago. My first husband was never big on Valentine’s Day. ...

Where Is The Bottom?

With another economic blow to our community, the closing of Jamestown Business College, a part of Jamestown since 1886, one may rightly ask “Where is the Bottom?” It is now 6 years since our community lost its passenger air service. We have dropped off the nation’s air map, while in ...