It’s a question worth asking in these nutty times: how old is too old to trick-or-treat? On the question-and-answer website Quora, some people ask if the age of 12 is a good time to hang up the ghost costumes. That sounds about right to me. My mother would have decked me if I’d tried to […]

Since pundits seem to have collectively decided the election is about one word — “inflation” — it’s time to take a closer look. Democrats are charged with not having a plan to “fight inflation,” and it’s true; they do not. Republicans, who expect to win because of “inflation,” do not have a plan, either — […]

This week I dug up an amazing – and scary – radio commentary my father delivered on Sept. 1, 1976. It was one of about 600 weekly nationally syndicated commentaries he wrote on yellow legal tablets during the late 1970s. It described how he had decided what to say in “a letter to the future” […]

Perhaps it’s partly because my mother owns a huge antique desk from Milky Way Farm (the former estate of Franklin C. Mars, founder of Mars Candies), but I pay keen attention to the annual flurry of “filler” news items about Halloween candy. “Prices up or down? What’s hot and what’s not? Should I call my […]

The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media companies have experience identifying and countering misinformation. However, the nature of the threat misinformation poses to society continues to shift in form and targets. The […]

I recently had the opportunity to ride along with a volunteer driver for the Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN), a local program that provides free rides to folks in need of accomplishing errands or getting to medical appointments. In my two hours spent with the driver and the rider, it became abundantly clear that there is […]