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Public officials need to look their constituents in the eye

There’s an old legal maxim that hard cases make bad law. Cases don’t come much harder than the ...

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2020, for all of its heartbreak, gave a few things to smile about

This year ended with Santa Claus smiling and waving at children from behind Plexiglass. Carolers, if they gathered ...

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Christmas traditions endure, evolve, fade

Christmas trees, for many of us, have become our three-dimensional family albums. On their branches, brought out for ...

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Attacks on election officials are disgraceful

I have written and published a number of editorials and columns during the past several decades extolling the ...

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Christmas trees – and other evergreens – stand test of time

Evergreen. That was the point. Long before Christianity, people of various cultures found encouragement and even religious significance ...

Opinion

What were we — or our parents — thinking?

There are very real concerns today about children’s exposure to new and uncharted dangers, particularly through the internet ...

Opinion

Events of 2020 cast pall over Thanksgiving

It would be so easy to write a warm and fuzzy column about Thanksgiving. It is, indeed, among ...

Opinion

Isle of Wight has been reliably red for decades

Few people admit to voting for a political party. “I vote for the person, not the party” is ...

Opinion

Newsman remembered for time he came to the rescue

One of the most talented journalists I’ve been privileged to know died last week. That alone would warrant ...

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Statue task force was doomed from the start

Task forces, advisory groups, study groups — call them what you will, they sometimes have a place in ...

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