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Is inside better than outside when it comes to owning cats?

By Al Winzerling Since the 1990s, cats have surpassed dogs in popularity as pets in the U.S. and Europe. Generally, cats are less demanding and easier to take care of for a busy p...

Ornstein: This major challenge to local news has gone almost unnoticed

The foundations of the U.S. political system have recently come under unprecedented threat, centered on manipulation by foreign powers – notably, the insidious role of Russian interference i...

Mazur: Bayfield basketball gets its day

Some weary boys stepped off the school bus on Sunday, but they were holding the ultimate prize, a long-sought state championship for Bayfield...in basketball. This small school ha...

Man searches for past lover

DEAR ABBY: This is the 37th anniversary of when I met and fell in love with a beautiful young woman in Iowa. We were together less than a year before she decided to pursue her dreams in ...

Young people must learn the basics of financial literacy

Recently, I enjoyed working with and learning from seventh-graders at Miller Middle School as we discussed financial literacy. Know Your Dough provided the curriculum – which is ...

Davidson: Sunshine Week is turbid under Trump

WASHINGTON — If sunshine is the best disinfectant, President Donald Trump must pray for rain. He and his administration have a gloomy record when it comes to transparency, a parti...

Harrop: Middle America must lead on guns

America desperately needed a new kind of citizen leader to force political change. She found it in the students, parents and teachers scarred by the massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high sch...

Son angry about wedding gift

DEAR ABBY: I was working out of town in a position that paid a good salary. When my adult son proposed to his girlfriend, I told him I would try and give him $10,000 for the wedding. Wel...

Brooks: With a rising populist wave, what comes after Trump?

What happens to U.S. politics after Donald Trump? Do we snap back to normal, or do things spin ever more widely out of control? The best indicator we have so far is the example of...

Poem reminds about guest towels

DEAR ABBY: I’m frustrated that guests in my home almost never use the guest towels I’ve put out for them in the bathroom. Why do they do this? I remember a little poem in your...

Hope will rise when we quiet our minds

You might be surprised to learn that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is not an optimist. Neither is his great friend and conversation partner, His Holiness the Dalai...

Kristof: Trump’s North Korea gamble

It’s infinitely better that North Korea and the United States exchange words rather than missiles. Yet President Donald Trump’s decision to meet Kim Jong Un strikes me as a danger...