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Editorials

Make a resolution to give blood

If you think it’s too late to make a New Year’s resolution, think again. One of the best resolutions you can make is to give blood at a Red Cross blood drive. Giving blood is easy. It takes a little time out of your day, but it’s not very taxing. In fact, most of the time during your ...

Anniversary of an insurrection

Today is the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in our democracy’s history. One year ago thousands of people heeded President Trump’s call to come to Washington to protest the election results. After a rally at which Trump addressed them and told them to march to the Capitol where ...

What to do about omicron threat?

The specter of the omicron variant is casting a shadow over schools and workplaces. This version of the COVID-19 virus is proving able to plow through the defenses of vaccinations. It travels fast, and as schools reopen and businesses start to call employees back to work, health experts fear ...

January 6 report is truly necessary

The House committee examining the events leading up to and surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is getting ready to start releasing its findings. The Associated Press reports the committee has interviewed 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and ...

Keep Sirhan Sirhan in prison for good

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a tough choice. But then again, it shouldn’t be a tough choice to decide whether to parole Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin who killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in June of 1968. The killing of Robert Kennedy, just five years after the assassination of his ...

COVID seeped into everything in 2021

In the economic news, COVID has impacted workplaces, employees and business operations alike. In the world of sports, COVID shortened seasons, forced players out of games for a couple of weeks at a time and has even kept the NHL from allowing its players to compete in the Winter Olympics. In ...