by Tom West Editor/General Manager It is the true sports fan’s lot to suffer. True sports fans stick with their team …
When our children were young, one Fourth of July we decided to have a parade on the spur of the …
Finally, some good news has come out about newspapers: America’s premier investor Warren Buffett is buying them. Last week, the …
On the evening of July 13, 1957, my dad and I, age 10, boarded a train bound for Chicago to …
by Tom West Editor/General Manager Republicans are cheering and Democrats are glum this week after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survived a …
By Tom West Editor/General Manager The first time I ever entered the business end of a funeral home I was in …
If I had been asked to make a commencement speech to the Class of 2012, here’s what I’d have said: …
Only one issue really matters in this fall’s election, and that is how to get the economy moving again. Say …
Almost 30 years ago, I changed jobs and put the first house that I had ever owned up for sale. …
Six months ago, I wrote in this space about the passing of my aunt, at age 98, an extraordinarily selfless …
Back before the Great Recession began, one of my neighbors would get a new car or a new boat or …
Weather is everybody’s favorite icebreaker, but it always amazes me how little we remember of the day-to-day ups and downs. …
A perfect storm is brewing on the horizon, and I’m not talking about the environment. It’s “perfect” in several ways, …
The key to this fall’s election will be, as it usually is, prosperity — or the lack thereof. So it …
When I was 10 or 11 years old, on the Sunday after the state high school basketball tournament ended, I …
