Columns

Driving the 480 miles from Columbus, Ohio to Raleigh, N.C., should take you about eight hours. But what if your GPS device insisted you...

At least one of America’s Founding Fathers would be pleased that Sidney continues to celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks! John Adams, the...

I think of freedom in positive, aspirational terms — as in FDR’s “Four freedoms,” or in the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed...

I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about...

“Gloria, do you have anything planned for today? Are you needing help with anything?”It was Susan, a sister in church who is a dear...

After a swift start to summer vacation here on the farm, we’ve decided to keep the rest of the summer wide open for lazy...

We will never figure out health care, Medicaid and most of our country’s issues until we learn how to enter and exit buildings.For years...

Have you read the book Hillbilly Elegy? I have, and I hope readers realize that Vance’s story is not the story of all families...

A small few have criticized my decision to vote against raising the Health Insuring Corporation (HIC) tax. Here is the backstory. The federal government...

The closed-season school board meeting was called to order half an hour late by its chairman, J. Buckdancer Alcott, because the board members saw...