The wildfires in the West have burned up millions of acres, taken dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, cost enormous amounts of money to combat and, yes, they ...
Sixty years ago this Saturday, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon made political history with the first nationally televised presidential debate, a clash most analysts...
This National Small Business Week (Sept. 20-26) has a somber tone thanks to the 400,000 such businesses we've lost since the COVID-19 pandemic began. A survey five years...
U.S. passes 200,000 deaths from COVID-19
The official COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has passed 200,000. There’s a lot behind that number.
Is 200,000 an undercount, as s...
Across the U.S., the reopening of college campuses is fast becoming a new public health crisis.
The arrival of students for the start of the fall semester has caused CO...
A teacher who was thinking of quitting the profession because of the coronavirus recently contacted me. He had read about the infection triggering a wave of heart diseas...
The article, “Water Woes Persist” in the Sept. 8 edition of the Butler Eagle left out information crucial to the community's understanding of the issue. Families in The ...
Some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the past week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The As...
A good friend says no to an outdoor barbecue. Your uncle doesn’t stop by when he passes your town en route to a vacation. A friend fails to mask up in your car. These ar...
Artificial intelligence has been on the rise in workplaces for at least the past decade. From consumer algorithms to quantum computing, AI’s uses have grown in type and ...