Editorials

On the way to Alliance this week, I was reminded of a poem that Tom Mc Beth, a poet friend from Kansas, wrote about

I was born in Boulder, Colorado, and I moved around to a several different states during my elementary school years, including Arkansas, Mississippi, and

Lake and meadow met, grass and cattails mingling along an undefined shoreline. There must have been birds there though all I remember is the

As I was traveling from Alliance to Hemingford this past Saturday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice that the hay harvest season is well

By PATRICIA JONES Last week we learned about the saloon at Dobby’s Frontier Town. In frontier towns, saloons and brothels or bordellos provided a

Most of us have been paying into Social Security as long as we have been earning wages. When you reach a certain age, it

It can be successfully argued that humans are hard-wired to serve, that there are biological reasons why we feel good when we serve. Medical

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty, lifting more Americans above the poverty line than any other program. A hundred years

A few months ago California burned. Among the thousands of acres that went up in smoke was Big Basin State Park — my childhood

I try to keep politics vacant from these weekly written chats. Today, I’ll make a meager exception. Short and sweet and to the point: