It doesn’t have to be this way. I am 81 and grew up in Minneapolis. When I graduated high school, I got my bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota. It cost me $90 per quarter — for a total of $1,080 for my degree. This included free medical care. What has changed? Sixty years […]

I get my hard news from many sources, your papers, The Economist, TV, online, but I want to communicate that, hard news aside, I appreciate good writing. In particular I want you to know that I subscribe to (winter) the Sun Journal and (summer) the Press Herald — largely for the quality of the writing. […]

There has been massive supportive coverage on Graham Platner running in the Democratic primary for senator in your newspapers. Granted he is young and fresh, at age 41, but forgotten is that he had a Nazi symbol created in a tattoo on his chest when he was age 20 and just had it removed this […]

Dozing off, obsessing about yesterday’s slights, real or imagined, making some irrational decisions, insisting on always being right due to unique life experiences, these are all “old” grandfather traits we personally have seen before and laughed off. But never was America’s future as a democracy, or our reliability and respect as a world leader, at […]

In this day and age there is no place for nations to be colonizers. All peoples and nations must be sovereign and free to determine what to do with their own natural resources. At this point in human history, if one nation wishes to utilize another sovereign nation’s resources then they should negotiate with them, […]

Today, I’m writing to express my outrage at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest action to curb free speech. As a former member of this country’s armed services, I remember being trained on what was a “lawful order” and what was not. To take action against a retired military member for urging those on active duty […]