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Opinion

Straw Poll, Feb. 10-16

Editorials

This week's straw poll: If given the opportunity, would you upload your consciousness to the digital realm? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of internet users who have chosen to participate.

Braving the cold in the name of art

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Thank you everyone who attended to paint, photograph or spectate at Artists Night at the Palace on Monday, Feb. 9. Braving temps that dipped into the single digits, it was amazing to walk around and see artists with their easels capturing the majesty of the Palace. The ...

The next day

Columns

When my son was about nine, we walked into a drugstore on Feb. 15, the day after Valentine’s Day. Clearance tables cluttered the front, stacked high with heart-shaped boxes dotted with red foil-wrapped chocolates, a veritable chocolate forest. Like Christmas stars, these piles were topped ...

Neck injuries now part of improved IIHS testing

Columns

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is launching a new seat and head restraint evaluation targeting neck injuries stemming from rear-end crashes. Only four out of the first 18 small SUVs tested earned a good rating. “Neck sprains and strains are the most frequently reported ...

Time for pancakes, fritters and donuts

Columns

“Mix a pancake, stir a pancake, pop it in the pan. Fry the pancake, toss the pancake, catch it if you can. — Christina Rossetti In Poland, Fat Thursday came on Feb. 11 — time to eat donuts and fatten up before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Throughout the British Isles, Shrove Tuesday has ...

The power of shame

Guest Commentary

On Feb. 25, 2019, the Enterprise published an opinion piece I had written. Its truncated title was in the form of a question, “Is Trumpism canary in coal mine?” In it I asked, rhetorically, if liberal democracy — that is, fairly elected representative government, accompanied by ...