Sometimes, the places just beyond your backyard can provide new experiences or information and an opportunity to get a better appreciation of your community.
This past w...
What you post on social media can have an unpredictable impact, and can get you fame. It can even make you money.
How long can social media stardom last? Perhaps that “1...
Each year, thousands of eighth grade students from across the nation take a class trip to Washington, D.C. The impact can be life-changing, especially as young people bo...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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The new COVID-19 variants were named after brain wave frequencies....
For Gaylord Perry, today’s pitcher’s mound would be a candy store.
Perry was a gifted pitcher during the 1970s and later a Hall of Fame inductee, but he also was a notor...
June 17 marked the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s 1971 speech beginning the war on drugs.
By any objective accounting, the drawn-out conflict has been a c...
What are the origins of Father’s Day, and why do we need to celebrate it?
Father’s Day dates back to 1910 when a Spokane, Wash., woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, realized there...
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line:
The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is the...
Last December, Oregon lawmaker Mike Nearman was meeting with activists unhappy with the state’s pandemic lockdown. He shared their sentiments and thought he’d do somethi...
Butler County’s patchwork of rural farms, small towns and busy, developing municipalities creates an unique environment where nearly anyone can find a homey place to rai...
