I got called "Georgia" by one of my son's friends the other day. I wasn't insulted — I know from firsthand experience that kids nowadays have a startling familiarity with adults. My own son and his cousin, both 6 years old, once walked up to my husband's 70-year-old uncle when they saw him ...
I have long become accustomed to what I call the "BTMF" reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens. That's short for "Blame the media first." As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in the news ...
With great fanfare which produced a momentary sigh of relief in this town, the governor and two legislative leaders revealed last week that they had signed an agreement to get the state budget done on time to avert an ugly state government shutdown. And they also agreed to a new $1.85 billion ...
Donald Trump's second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism. It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti-Trump political goals has been unmistakable. I ...
Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that "every American will soon receive their own MedBed card" that will grant them ...
A few weeks ago, a 27-year-old had to postpone running outdoors because wildfire smoke was exacerbating his asthma. The cloudy mix of fine particles obscuring the view across the lake is approximately 10 times more toxic than usual air pollution derived from burning fossil fuels. The data is ...