"Might makes right." You may have heard this over the past couple of weeks. It has been is used by our government to take over Venezuela. It is used by Russia to invade Ukraine. It is use by the Orthodox Israelis to justify the taking of Palestinian lands. When will our president use it next, ...

We regret that we will not be able to have a train show this year at the Florence County Library as in the past. Both I and my wife, Melissa Lison, have had some major health issues much of this year, several still continuing. This has not allowed us to be able to get the show together this ...

Is diversity important in a successful democracy? The definition of diversity is: the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social or ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, cultures, sexual orientations, ethnicities, etc. It appears to me that a ...

My family is living in a “war zone,” but not in another country, right here in America — in Waukegan, Illinois! Waukegan, a northern suburb of Chicago, is a predominantly Latino community, full of hard-working, Christian families. It was a peaceful place to raise a family … until ...

As a former Dickinson County Commissioner who helped draft the board’s bylaws, I’m alarmed by the proposal to amend them to dictate what visitors wear, how they address commissioners and how long they may speak. Bylaws exist to govern the conduct of the board — not to control the ...

The open enrollment period for Medicare policies started Oct. 15 and ends Dec. 7. So my spouse and I went to the Medicare site to review our Medigap and drug insurance policies. We started with the drug plan and saw a nice surprise. The monthly cost was going down by $2, a reduction of 2%. ...