For 50 years, my life’s work has revolved around helping young people make the often-difficult leap from high school to higher education. Today, I’m more concerned than ever about the challenges students face, especially those who are the first in their families to pursue a college ...

The Main Building at the Trudeau Sanatorium has stood empty for years. But listen closely when you walk by, and you might just hear the sound of applause coming from the dining room. During the Sanatorium days, patients who were well enough to get out of bed dressed for dinner and walked to ...

An important part of my job on the town board is to ask questions. Harrietstown residents and taxpayers deserve and need to know “why,” and, just as importantly, “why not” when it comes to how we spend money and govern. No town councilperson should sit through a meeting as a mere ...

As we approach an election, we often think that the person we elect has more power than they really do. This is especially true of presidential candidates. In this election cycle, one of the biggest issues is the economy. Many Trump supporters look back and think that they were better off ...

The Republicans are not sincere when they address the issue of immigration. This is easy to tell because they want to perform a wholesale deportment of all our current immigrants even though many of those fall into the category of “good propaganda for the Right.” The Right has ...

During the last Art Walk a few weeks ago I noticed the big posters on the Republican party headquarters exhorting me to “Save America.” That encounter raised the obvious question: Save it from what? The Republican answer, as I understand it, is from government overreach and the loss of our ...