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No excuses for impaired driving

Editorials

New Year’s parties are about to get under way, and it is a good time to again remember not to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking or using any impairing substance at one of those events. National statistics offer a sobering look at the dangers of driving while impaired. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 12,429 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2023, the latest year for which statistics are available. And, NHTSA adds, about one third of traffic fatalities involve drivers with a blood-alcohol content of .08 or higher. ...

Illegal aliens break the law

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: There is no such thing as a law-abiding illegal alien. If you sneak into America, you break the law — period. I’m going to confound many Democrats: Define a man. It’s amazing how many liberals who can’t define a woman are suddenly experts on fishing boats and the economy. Liberals claim Robert Kennedy is anti-science, yet there are some liberals who tell us men can have babies. It seems like President Donald Trump holds more press conferences in one week than Joe Biden had in four years. As of the 2025 Center for Immigration Studies report, 54 percent ...

Sharing your opinions

Local Columns

No one is quite sure when the first letter to the editor appeared in a newspaper. While opinion pieces have been around since the first words were recorded, the letter to the editor in the form we recognize today has been a part of printed publications since, well, the beginning of printed publications. They seem to really have caught on in the mid-1700s, as printing presses became more common and writers looked for ways to share their thoughts with a wider audience. Whenever they actually started, they’ve continued to grow and evolve, even as the way we communicate with each ...

Trump, Kelly still battling

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Recently, President Donald J. Trump, totally inappropriately and completely without merit, announced that he and his administration were strongly considering re-enlisting Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, into active military duty, in order to formally court-martial and disgrace him for his statement, which had been made in unison with five of his Democratic colleagues, that those in the military service to our great country must defy illegal orders and abide by their oath to military service, the U.S. Constitution and military protocol and not to simply break ...

Bowl season still evolving

Editorials

If you are a fan of the college football bowl season, there’s some good news and some bad news. We’re right in the middle of the bowl schedule, with the sport’s second round of playoffs set for later this week, and some pretty good matchups filling up some of the other slots. That’s the good news. The bad news is that as the College Football Playoff expands — a move that could come again as soon as next season — the bowl system as we have come to know it will look a whole lot different. Bowl games have certainly come a long way since they were first played in the ...

Do some reflecting on your resolutions this year

Local Columns

I have never been someone who believes in the “New Year, New Me” mentality. Actually, if I am being honest with myself, the “Old Me” is usually just trying to do the best she possibly can to make it through the day. And yet, every year, as the calendar page turns to January, and the echoes of “Auld Lang Syne” fade into winter’s chill, I find myself sitting at my kitchen table … a notebook and very ambitious pen in hand. Usually, these resolutions look more like a laundry list of things I believe I should be doing. I don’t do this every year. Why? Because ...