Opinion

It is an irrefutable fact that at some point in every athlete’s life, he or she will be forced to admit that his or her playing days are over. While some athletes may choose walk away at their physical peak, most are driven out of their respected sports either by illness, injury, or age. Lou

Had it not been a drill, I would have been shot on Friday. As it was, I nearly had a heart attack. I was looking for a few answers to some questions for a story in today’s paper when I visited the SoBoCo school district’s administration office on Friday morning. I could not find anyone

Last Sunday I completed my 45th lap around that giant, fiery orb at the center of our solar system. The sun has risen and set about 16,430 times since I made my first confirmed appearance in the universe way back in 1971. A lot has changed since then. When I was born, people still rented

Amid the excitement of fall activities and sports, bunched in with the consternation of the presidential race, we finally saw Congress come together last week in an effort to get something done. Pass a new law? No. Provide some sort of leadership? Not really. But they did provide some much-needed fire-and-brimstone to the Wells Fargo

My wife bought a new iPhone the other day as a belated birthday present to herself. After Bethany made the mistake of not immediately setting up a passcode, our son Alex promptly made his mother regret the oversight when he changed her lock screen photo to a snapshot of his bare derriere. Happy birthday, Mom!

I contemplated mowing my lawn a number of times this past weekend. That is, to say, I thought about it – but the closest I got to the Lawn Boy was to walk past it in the garage and say, “Haha! Not this weekend, buddy.” Yep, mowing my yard so much this summer has me

There is a war on intellectualism being waged by some in this country. College educated men and women are being vilified as “elitists” by certain members of our society (and also in North Korea and parts of the world controlled by ISIS and Al-Qaeda where intellectuals are publicly executed.) Scientists with PhDs in atmospheric science

Saturday, September 17 is Constitution Day and I’m betting we all celebrate in different ways, if at all, and each of those will be protected by the United States Constitution – as is, believe it or not, this column. The Constitution of the United States has become a little bit more of a political football

It was an otherwise normal Friday night – the last one of those for a while as I had not gone to the Wright City-SoBoCo Eagles game – and I was getting in just a bit more reading as the midnight hour approached. The wife had long ago gone to bed, but the Boston Terrier

On the way to our Labor Day weekend campout in Steelville, Missouri, our cursed generator, the bane of my existence, performed flawlessly for the first time since we purchased our RV eighteen months ago. My theory that operating the power plant in extremely hot weather causes a vapor-lock issue within the fuel line was apparently