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And they’re off! The presidential sweepstakes begins – again

As if anybody is being held in suspense – Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden are two salty old men – one of whom will be the nation’s next president – again. They’re now, officially, both “presumptive nominees” – again. And the American public is bracing itself for the ...

Ford, Edison and their Summit stay

On a wall near the Historic Summit Inn registration desk hangs a framed page with the signatures of some famous guests from long ago. Two signatures belong to two titans of the early 20th century whose work transformed America and the world forever. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison spent a night ...

I lost winter – again!

In my free time, (there’s lots of that these days), I find myself rummaging through some of the old columns I’ve written over the years. I found one column from 2007 that seems to be prescient this week. “I Lost Winter,” was a column I wrote for the Herald-Standard back in March of ...

The calm at the center of the storm

Democrats are in turmoil, everyone, that is, except the Democrat at the center of things, President Joe Biden. Sure that he is on track to administer another thrashing to Donald Trump this November, the president is serene - maybe too serene, to paraphrase movie westerns. "He betrays no ...

Trump primary vote not adding up

Despite losing the White House in 2020, Donald Trump is running for president again as an incumbent. Just ask him. Or better yet, ask the eight starry-eyed Republicans who lined up to debate him beginning last summer, only to have Trump refuse to engage them and their Potomac River ...