Reghan Winkler: Get fit, don’t get scammed this year
As the new year begins, many of us set our sights on achieving weight loss goals. If you are at the beginning of your journey, it’s important to be aware of the various weight loss scams being promoted. These scams deceive consumers with false promises and employ questionable business practices.
Equal or fair: neither matters in gifts and inheritances
Over the last few weeks, a certain brother expressed frustration that the brother’s sibling received larger and more frequent gifts from parents of the brother and sibling. That brother also identified how much less love the brother perceived receiving compared to the sibling.
Tom Purcell: Laughing your way to happiness
What makes us happy and fulfilled?
Ron Lora: Politics and morality
Has there been a politician with a more glaring history of lying than George Santos from Long Island, who in November won a U.S. congressional race? There seems no limit to the fantasies of his mind.
Clarence Page: What’s the Supreme Court’s Title 42 case about? Hint: It’s not the...
Amid the constant partisan fussing, feuding and fighting in Washington these days, I was gratified — however briefly — by a moment of bipartisan agreement at the Supreme Court.
Christine Flowers: Are we slowly drifting back into ‘the twilight zone’?
When you have the beginning of a cold, nothing sparkly to wear and you really hate New Year’s, you watch television. If a certain station has the good sense to run a marathon of vintage Twilight Zone episodes, your choice is made from the moment you hear “doo dee da doo, doo dee da doo” coming from what you think is your flat screen-but which could, in fact, originate from another planetary system.
Holy Cow! History: Congress’ champion truth-stretcher
If the title Congressional Truth-Stretching Champion is ever awarded, there would be an Olympic-scale competition to claim it. Politicians in general, and members of Congress in particular, take a certain wiggle room with telling the truth.
Jerry Zezima: You’ve still got mail
I like to think outside the box, mainly because I can’t fit inside the box. And even if I could, I would suffocate.
David Trinko: Put your paws up for the classics
You could always count on hearing our dog bark when you walk toward the front door of our house.