Journal-World Editorials
- Safe Fourth
- The Fourth of July weekend will be filled with summertime activities. Please keep those activities fun and safe.
- July 3, 2008
- It seems that Douglas County has experienced more than the normal number of tragic accidents in recent days: a bicyclist and motorcyclist killed, as well as a couple of homes destroyed by fires.
Local Columns
July 3, 2008
- Home grown: Kitchen garden yields fresh produce, high satisfaction
- Good grief. There is this summer’s tomato scare, the spinach fright of 2007 and the floods in Iowa that have drowned huge quantities of corn. We want to eat foods like tomatoes, spinach and corn that are fresh and serve as a statement of perfection in their simplicity.
- Despite buzz, traditional mosquito remedies best
- When I think about picnics and fireworks this weekend, something else comes to mind: big, thirsty mosquitoes. Besides being a nuisance with their buzzing and biting, mosquitoes are health concerns because of their capability to transmit diseases such as West Nile virus.
June 30, 2008
- New arrival on Massachusetts Street makes splash in local tea market
- Wouldn’t you know it? Just when I thought I’d finished gallivanting around the area visiting and writing about tea shops, and made the decision to focus future columns on people instead of tea, a great new place, offering a fabulous selection of quality loose-leaf teas, opened in Lawrence.
June 29, 2008
- Saying ‘I don’t’ to family weddings
- Consider this column a fair warning to anyone with a decent camera or a mediocre ability to use said device. Someday down the road one of your cousins will get engaged. Although you haven’t seen this bride-to-be since she convinced you to get your head stuck in a metal St. Louis Cardinals trash can when you were 4, your aunt Margie, her mother, thinks that you would be the perfect wedding photographer for her daughter on the most important day of her life.
Syndicated Columns
July 3, 2008
- America still a nation of values, ideals
- Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report questioning whether America’s national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.
- Bush has dug a deep hole for the nation
- A couple hours to kill on a humid afternoon in a small town in Massachusetts and rather than sit looking at hotel wallpaper I took a little walk.
July 2, 2008
- Parents set tone on alcohol
- Making the rounds of several high school graduation parties a few weeks ago, I was struck by something that perplexed me, but did not surprise me. Toddlers, tweens, teenagers, parents and grandparents milled about at the various parties, congratulating the recent graduate and his friends. Cards and gifts were stacked on multiple tables and food was plentiful.
- Obama-Clinton ‘unity’ raises questions
- In keeping with his “messiah” image, Barack Obama might have been more at home in Bethlehem, Pa., than in Unity, N.H., when he and his “former” nemesis, Hillary Clinton, opened their new act on the road to mixed reviews.
Letters to the Editor
July 3, 2008
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To the editor: Hey, the city is on a roll. We need a couple of “atta-boys” for Sue and the ...
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