Opinion

To the Editor: Economic reasons to vote against President Obama

  Editor,       Recently President Clinton has been featured in an Ad supporting President Obama.  The former President is saying “This e...

Pastors Blog - “Someone Found Another Gospel?”

Last week, the Associated Press and several other news networks released yet another ‘gospel’.  Harvard University professor Karen King, an expert in the history of Christiani...

Why (I think) I did not, and may never, serve on a jury

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series on serving on jury duty. I was in the jury pool in September, and when a mistrial caused the case on which I was a prospective juror to be put on ...

Letter to the Editor - Thank you to community

THANK-YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE, I want to take this very public approach to thank all the wonderful, caring individuals who worked together to save me, Monica Lynn Stark.   I almost die...

Letter to the Editor: The choice between liberty and tyranny

  These are troubling times. Families are struggling to keep their houses and to put food on the table. They see their paychecks, if they haven’t already lost them, remaining stagna...

The qui“zz”ical challenge of typing with a missing “z”

  It’s cray and its any But now I clearly see What happens when your keyboard No longer can say “z”   The other day I wanted To write about ...

The lessons of a sunset over a cemetery

The Thursday sunset over Bear Creek Cemetery inspired some serious thinking.   The sunset last Thursday was so much more fiery than usual, and the red burned on the western horizon ­much longer than I had ever observed, that it seemed more like a message from t...

Why Sept. 12 should be a National Holiday

  This week, Americans observed the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Unlike the 10th anniversary, there were not as many stories about that historically horrible event. But still, in NYC and DC, ...

♫♪Music to my ears♪♫

Okay.  I'm a musician, sort of. This weekend I was asked to play music for a wedding that had me breaking out in a sweat. The ol' "I'd can't read notes so therefore I ...

Letter to the Editor - Local officers thanked

Behind the scenes helpfulness. The Vinton police department and the Benton County Sheriff's department do many helpful deeds that largely go unnoticed. One of those helpful good deeds ...