OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Four years later
Four years ago today, I got a call from my boss saying that we would be out of the office for a while with the majority of the country. Covid-19 had been decla…
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Four years ago today, I got a call from my boss saying that we would be out of the office for a while with the majority of the country. Covid-19 had been decla…
Longtime readers know I'm no fan of politics as practiced today, and why would I be, with all the fabulism, division, insults and ignoring of the law that's be…
It shouldn't be the least bit surprising that I'm not the only word nerd who works at the paper. So when a story shows up online using "Woah," someone's going …
So many thoughts have crowded my head over the past week that it's been hard to settle on a topic for this week's column. But because I want to avoid politics …
While others are sending flowers and candy and words of love to their sweethearts today, I share my billet-doux with the world of words.
Rather than expanding on the excellent editorial on the opposite page Tuesday on the subject of a letter printed on this page last Friday, I'm going into word-…
Probably everyone has had to deal with a friend or family member who has given in to conspiracy theories. But where once those truly invested in outlandish tal…
It should come as no surprise that I was a bookish kid. I learned to read before school ever started, partly because I wanted to be able to do what my brothers…
As birthday weekends go, this one wasn't that bad, even with the absence of red velvet cake (dang it). Plus the "Arctic Hammer" (seriously???) waited till my o…
I had a lot to think about over the weekend: what would have been my brother Corey's 60th birthday, the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.…