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Our good intentions are imprisoning people

This idea that when we’re old we get to wear purple is way too tame for the generations approaching their twilight years. When we’re old, we get to rock out till 3 a.m. to Judas Priest at a ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Guilt remains after friendship ends

DEAR ABBY: My “friend” from childhood, “Camille,” has never had my back. I have done the heavy lifting in our friendship our whole lives. While I was on vacation two years ag...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Robinson: Trump’s rhetoric is going to get someone killed

Everything you need to know about today’s Republican Party is summed up by a photograph from President Trump’s political rally in Ohio last Saturday. Two men in the crowd look de...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Waiting for the bomb in Santa Fe

Even though rain pounded the Santa Fe Opera last Thursday, the show went on. Thunder, lightning and sheets of water fell throughout most of Act I of “Dr. Atomic.” Crew members sw...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Mom charges rent after wedding

DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law owns the building my husband and I live in. I moved in with him about a year ago, before we were married. Because she owns the building, she doesn’t charge he...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Samuelson: Welcome to the age of malware

WASHINGTON — Welcome to the Age of Malware. It promises to be a huge downer and, possibly, a great tragedy. For years, we have regarded personal computers, the internet, smartphon...

DATE: Aug 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Grandma worries about exposed toddler

DEAR ABBY: My daughter “Scarlet” has a precious 18-month-old baby girl I’ll call Sierra. Scarlet, her husband and the baby spend a lot of time at their beach house, where they have sever...

DATE: Aug 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Goldberg: Will the birthplace of the modern right turn blue?

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – July 31, 2018, was a Tuesday, which meant that constituents of Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman from Orange County, were out protesting. Until...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Wife attracted to woman causes confusion

DEAR ABBY: I am a 50-year-old woman. I have been married to my husband for 28 years and never cheated. We have a good life together, and our sex life has always been great, but I have re...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Learning, growing can all start with healthy snack

It’s shocking that despite all the medical advances over the last century, today’s children are expected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. A big contributor to...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Zakaria: There is only one way out of Afghanistan

NEW YORK — Donald Trump campaigned as someone who wanted to get America out of the Middle East. But he also cast himself as a tough guy, and his initial instincts in office were to show forc...

DATE: Aug 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

The horses are wild. Time to tame our policy.

Wild mustangs are a problem. A fascinating problem. Even captivating. Just hearing those half-ton hide-wrapped packages of muscle and bone snort and stomp as they toss their heads can knock ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns