We’re less than four months from commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. For those of us who lived through it, that date evokes memories and certain images. Even for those not yet born, there is a clear undisputed knowledge of what happened ... See more
Shortly before midnight on Jan. 29, 2023, the flight crew for a Canadian North flight was headed to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Seeing two lights moving in a circular pattern, the crew asked air traffic controllers if two planes were doing maneuve... See more
History will record the true lifespan of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as 48 years. That’s how long it lived as a fully whole and vigorous protector of those who had been historically disenfranchised. From 1965 to 2013, the United States became a genuine ... See more
The other night, I saw what I thought was a cat darting across the wet street from my neighbor’s driveway. I then realized it was a raccoon from the distinctive hunchback and the hop from the back legs when it ran. My first thought was it must be running ... See more
They are shadows on the screen, ghosts on electronic pages. As of Monday, there were 2,656 of them. That’s the number of people who, the Washington Post reports, have been killed in the United States since 2006 in mass shootings. The Post defines mass sho... See more
