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Local Commentaries

Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?

There is a wonderful country song sung by George Jones which is about great country singers who have now passed or someday will. To give you a taste of it, here are four lines: “Who’s gonna fill their shoes? Who’s gonna stand that tall? Who’s gonna play the Opry And the Wabash ...

High Court To Address Bump Stocks

Expected soon is a U.S. Supreme Court decision that will affect guns. Yet by all indications, the decision won’t be about the Second Amendment. ı ı ı This action — Garland v. Cargill — addresses bump stocks. Central to this action is the National Firearms Act’s machine gun ...

Overlooked Truths Of Retirement Accounts

Nearly half a century ago, on Labor Day 1974, President Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The bill created Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and essentially paved the way for 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and a host of imitations. Retirement experts have been beating up ...

A Jury Judges A Former President

For the first time in our history, a 12-person jury of one’s peers unanimously found a former President guilty of a felony after applying the highest level of proof in our judicial system… “guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” There are really two stories here — that of our judicial ...

Court Rejects Punishing Disfavored Speech

No government officials in New York would engage in lawfare to silence their political opponents, would they? Oh, yes, they would. Indeed, they did. And the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously shut down such an effort by New York as violating the First Amendment. ı ı ı The speaker ...

A Garden Vegetable?

First of all, I believe rhubarb is technically a vegetable since it has no seeds in it. Once again, my rhubarb is ready to pick. I have already made sauce and one pie. I have only two plants. But that is enough for me. When one of my son’s employees wanted to get rid of her rhubarb, I ...