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Fake meat will save us from climate change

I plopped down in the sports bar last week to watch World Cup soccer and eat my first fake meat burger. I don’t mean to slight the surging U.S. women’s team, but the plant-based p...

DATE: Jun 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Maybe, at long last, China is the paper tiger

NEW YORK – Two weeks ago, according to organizers, about 2 million people marched in a Chinese city to protest an extradition bill that they labeled Chinese “tyranny.” If accurate...

DATE: Jun 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

What ‘Chernobyl’ teaches us about Donald Trump

I binge-watched HBO’s “Chernobyl” this week. It made me think of Donald Trump. My Trump Derangement Syndrome has not spiked to on the ideological dosimeter. And no, I don’t think ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I want to live in Elizabeth Warren’s America

It’s early, but this much is true: Elizabeth Warren is running the most impressive presidential campaign in ages, certainly the most impressive campaign within my lifetime. I don’...

DATE: Jun 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We could always just sink the pirate ships of Iran

On April 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a frigate, hit an Iranian naval mine while sailing in the Persian Gulf. The explosion injured 10 of her crew and nearly sank the ship...

DATE: Jun 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Pine River Library is a gem that needs your help

As a property-owning, tax-paying citizen of Bayfield who also works at the library, I’m offering information and personal experience for consideration by my fellow citizens (“ I don’t speak...

DATE: Jun 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bernie, the ’30s called and wants its decade back

WASHINGTON – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is a man from the 1930s. If you didn’t believe that before, you certainl...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The worst president hails the greatest generation

Why do we still commemorate D-Day? It’s not a rhetorical question. The event is more distant to us than Custer’s Last Stand was to the men who stormed the Normandy shore. Those me...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The other D-Day: 75 years ago, it lit up the Pacific

As allied troops crossed the English Channel to invade northern France on June 6, 1944, 600 U.S. Navy ships were converging on the Mariana Islands, Japanese territory only 1,200 miles from t...

DATE: Jun 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I’m still not a socialist – don’t believe the hype

Once again, Rep. Scott Tipton is labeling me a “Socialist” (“ This has been standard procedure from Republicans for a very long time. Here’s what then-President Harry Truman said about it i...

DATE: Jun 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

This podcast perfect for mom-spying

On a recent Friday afternoon, a stylish woman in her early 40s showed up at a Brooklyn podcasting studio to tape what was essentially a three-hour therapy session, which was to later be cond...

DATE: Jun 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

9-R board, administrators, could learn from you

I want to thank community members for the generous outpouring you showed in support of our school children. Together, we raised $860 to support Miller Middle School kids with negative lunch ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns