Well the gong has rung and the filing deadline for municipal elections has come and gone.

I have consulted about campaigns and candidates for decades. I always stress the importance of numbers and not relying on the anecdotal observations or commentary a candidate hears. It is often not reliable as…

“We do lots of water activities.”

The issue: Council recently rejected a proposal to tie council compensation to attendance at council meetings.

Our position: This was the right decision. Attendance at meetings isn’t a financial incentives issue; it’s a political issue. It’s not city council who should decide…

Am I the only one aware of grave robbers and vandalism in our local cemeteries?

I have consistently honored my parents’ memory with nice arrangements from Jeffrey’s Florist on holidays, their birthdays and seasonally. They’ve all been in the same weighted copper pot since…

Recently a letter-writer questioned whether or not “some of The Daily Advance's ultra conservative neo-Christian regular letter writers were real warm-blooded human beings.” I feel rather certain that the primary target of his allegation was the author of another remarkable piece that…

Had Chelsea Clinton met with a Russian government lawyer during her mother’s presidential campaign to bring down Donald Trump, we’d be in impeachment country right now. And the hysterical right wing would be on the streets lighting bonfires and chanting “Lock her up.…

The Pilgrim, I suppose, began with somewhat good motives, but through interactions with the Native Americans and the environment, he became cynical, bitter, power-mad, and hate-filed. The Pilgrim became Caesar and helped America to become known as the "Hitler" among nations. America…