Columnists
Here’s how this works: Rudy Gobert is a professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz. Moments before the Jazz game two weeks ago in Oklahoma City, he was diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus, …
Winning Words
Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle? If you have, you know exactly what it feels like to be working through it and then finally finding that one piece of the puzzle that had haunted you for …
Winning Words
People make new decisions based on new information. And sometimes, what we think are difficult decisions to make as we face a trying or challenging time, become much easier to make when we receive …
Quiet Desperation
Headline: “Celebrity swears by moisturizer.” Tell me: Who swears by a moisturizer? What exactly is a moisturizer? Is here a man alive who can say the word “moisturizer” with a straight face? …
So. What’s new? There’s an old Chinese curse that reads “May you live in interesting times.” We are, my friends, living in a Chinese curse. Actually, given the origin of this pandemic, you …
When I was a kid, my first job was as a caddy at Green Gables Country Club. It wasn’t a great job — really early mornings, all day in the hot sun, good chance you’d show up for work and not …
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Letters to the Editor
Now that the precedent has been set by panic-driven autocrats, to indefinitely shut down our state, nation, and the entire world for what may be a nasty seasonal respiratory illness, why …
We worry about the folks who have had their jobs removed by the COVID-19 pandemic while our nation “shelters in place.” The doctors and nurses on the front line are in the …
Your story about the Methodist Church’s inevitable split over LGBTQ issues, took more than 2,500 words to say what an online satire site said in a 12-word headline on Jan. 6: …
I rely on a prescription inhaler to treat my asthma and an EpiPen, as I’m severely allergic to bees.
These treatments keep me safe in emergency health situations.
I’m …
I was stunned to read a recent letter to the editor that praised President Trump’s narcissism. Apparently, we as a nation are benefiting from his being, as the writer stated …
The Feb. 20 Tanscript listed the Jefferson County employees, which numbered 2,880+, and their salaries, which would need a monumental calculator to total. Of course this isn’t the …
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