Editorial: Cooperation is needed from all parties, or else
So there will be a Democrat in the White House, Republicans will control the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democrats will run the U.S. Senate. Some $6 billion spent on this election - imagine that...
View ArticleShayne Looper: Religion is personal, but should it be private?
In the vice presidential debate, ABC's Martha Raddatz asked Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan to talk about the role religion plays in their lives, particularly when it comes to the...
View ArticleBuying local keeps money in community
It sounds like a nice idea to shop local on Small Business Saturday, but does it really make a difference if you shop at an independent store versus a big-box retailer? Especially when many of the...
View ArticleLearn to love one another as Christ loved us
As we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in the next few weeks, let us learn to love one another as Christ loved us.
View ArticleMarketta Gregory: What I keep
For several years now I've talked about simplifying my gift-giving, buying fewer pieces of plastic and providing more memories. And each year, I stumble and fall back into that great feeling of having...
View ArticleThrough the media, we grow stronger as a nation
What happened in Newtown, Conn., last week broke the nation’s heart. Communities, parents, grandparents, teachers — just about everyone – grabbed the children in their lives and hugged them a little...
View ArticleGuest opinion: In wake of Newtown massacre, it's time to act
For seven years before I came to Southcoast in Massachusetts, I served as a senior executive at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, the hospital where the wounded children and teachers of the Sandy Hook...
View ArticleEditorial: Mitt Romney wins round 1
After a self-damaging few weeks, Mitt Romney did what he had to do at Wednesday nights presidential debate, besting President Barack Obama in the first of three such confrontations.For his part the...
View ArticleEditorial: In this era, slow growth beats no growth
The September jobs report is in, and for the first time in the Obama presidency, unemployment has dipped below 8 percent. By one measure 114,000 new jobs were added, with employment gains for July and...
View ArticleEditorial: Cooperation is needed from all parties, or else
So there will be a Democrat in the White House, Republicans will control the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democrats will run the U.S. Senate. Some $6 billion spent on this election - imagine that...
View ArticleEditorial: Not just Petraeus, but privacy itself imperiled
So General David Petraeus pulled a President Clinton, of sorts, and now hes paying for it, though the victims here may go beyond the principle players. Apparently even the director of the CIA can be...
View ArticleShayne Looper: Religion is personal, but should it be private?
In the vice presidential debate, ABC's Martha Raddatz asked Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan to talk about the role religion plays in their lives, particularly when it comes to the...
View ArticleEditorial: Mideast meltdown
While everyone on this side of the ocean seems obsessed with the soap opera that is the Petraeus scandal, things are heating up in the Middle East, with Syria specifically going out of its way to turn...
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