Farmers and ranchers in rural Missouri and Illinois, it’s safe to say, are a pretty conservative group, firm in their longtime dedication to the deregulation and free mar...
We all make many decisions in life. That would include our personal life, our financial life, our choice of where to live, what kind of car to drive and what people we wa...
The worst, it seems, has now happened in Ukraine. In a pre-dawn televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he had ordered an operation aimed at demilit...
This morning our children woke up to a real war. Not that Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran weren’t examples of the terrible atrocity of war, but due to the restrictions on n...
Fire companies have struggled in recent years with everything from finding volunteers and retaining them to funding that goes toward equipment.
So it was great to see the...
U.S. counties where people are more likely to vote and engage in professional and social associations tend to have more women on the boards of local corporations, accordi...
It’s ironic that I read an article in the Eagle on Feb. 10 on the editorial page about elder fraud. After getting many phone calls for months with a Pa. phone number I di...
The Food and Drug Administration’s surprise approval of Aduhelm for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease last year was a mess on practically every level. Three agency adv...
In the ever-worsening culture wars, schools have emerged as a battlefront, with fierce arguments raging about the contents of curricula and propriety of particular books....
Over the past two years, we've seen story after story about the COVID-19 pandemic preventing young people from being able to take parts in rites of passage typically asso...