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Local Commentaries

Stories Untold Can Be Unhealthy

The last article was an introduction to my professional link to working with clients professing ideology of self-destructive behaviors. I was fortunate and blessed to have had a golden opportunity to connect with an established county based 24-hour hotline. The public was served via telephone ...

President’s Mental Lapses Concerning To Reader

To The Reader’s Forum: The Presidential debate last Thursday - and now all this talk about President Biden’s mental competency. Isn’t the obvious solution to have him evaluated by a psychologist? What about the 25th Amendment? But then the obvious answer which we have seen ...

School Spending Is Out Of Control

A few weeks ago, the OBSERVER and Post-Journal printed an article about the extremely high cost of running our public schools. The OBSERVER and Post-Journal were right to point out that an average cost of $30,000 per student per year, with some districts spending as much as $36,000 per year ...

Were The Signers Really Just Deists?

Celebrating Independence Day can’t overlook the faith of those who led it. On a thread over social media, a professor of Philosophy and Humanities at St. Louis University, made a claim saying, “The founders were deists, not Christians...” I couldn’t let that go, so I responded, “Who ...

Jamestown: I Remember It Well

In October, I will return to Jamestown, where my story began. It has been over six decades since my family moved to Ann Arbor. I was just 14, but my childhood memories of growing up in Jamestown remain vivid and cherished. As the leaves start their symphony of colors, in addition to retracing ...

What Happens When Public Policies Collide?

It would be nice if everything were “cut and dried,” that everything was the good vs. the bad. But, many things land in between. In that regard, I found with interest a recent article in the Los Angeles Times detailing the results of an international regulation imposed in 2020 requiring ...