Nurturing your inner garden for better health

When people talk about “gut health,” it can sound mysterious – like some hidden switch that controls your whole body. But in my nutrition practice, I see every day how the trillions of micro...

DATE: Oct 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

A great road trip

Consider traveling in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming for great fly fishing

DATE: Oct 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Defending free speech means standing firm – even when it’s politically unpopular

The Founders may not have intentionally put the First Amendment first in the Bill of Rights, but they treated it as the foundation of self-government. Without the freedom to speak and publis...

DATE: Oct 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Holiday card never includes wife in address

DEAR ABBY: Every year like clockwork, we receive a holiday card from friends, which the wife addresses only to my husband. It is always a jolly card filled with their family adventures and a...

DATE: Oct 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The Trump administration is waging a systematic assault on First Amendment

The First Amendment is not merely ink on parchment – it is America’s covenant with itself. It ensures no leader can dictate what we say, publish, teach or worship. Yet, in 2025, Donald Trump...

DATE: Oct 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

When 15-year-old Alex picked up a welding torch at our Behind the Drywall summer institute, he wasn’t just learning a trade; he was discovering a career he had never imagined for himself. As...

DATE: Oct 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Neighbors have some growing up to do

DEAR ABBY: I am 54 and already facing ageism. Some of my neighbors who are in their 30s and 40s make ageist statements aimed at me. These people do not know me but happen to live in my build...

DATE: Oct 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

H. Jackson Clark II: A kind heart with open hands wove the best of us together

As we get older, we naturally consider our life’s impact on the world we live in. What is our lasting legacy in the eyes of the people around us? This is an easy question to answer for H. J...

DATE: Oct 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Storytellers with Erik Nordstrom, Josie Loner, Easton Tripp

Moe Cooley likes a good story. He also likes a good song, and he knows that behind every good song there’s a story. Cooley’s no stranger to either, as he’s a musician who has kicked around m...

DATE: Oct 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Psychedelics and the fear of dying

Have you noticed that people seem to be more open to talking and learning about death? In recent years, people have been exposed to a significant increase in death education. They are more a...

DATE: Oct 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Wife target of husband’s punchlines

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married for 49 years. Of course, we’ve had our ups and downs. My husband, “Sid,” said he was joking at the store the other day. When I talk, I gesture with my hands. A w...

DATE: Oct 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Voluntary family planning: the most effective, humane and least expensive way to address ecological overshoot

I was driving up Main Avenue, listening to a book and looking for the eye doctor’s office where I had an appointment. I glanced at the clock and realized that I was almost late – then I real...

DATE: Oct 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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