Reflections & Observations: Fractured Time
Why in the world would people stage a parade — the Tournament of Roses, for instance — at eight in the morning — on New Year’s Day...

COMMENTARY: MIRROR, MIRROR OF THE FALL
WASHINGTON - Through many decades, Americans were on an odyssey of self-discovery. As a woman told a man at a party in a 1991 New Yorker cartoon...

Letters To The Editor

Bay City Beat: Be Cruel To Your School?
Every once and a while, I get the feeling that public education is becoming a character from Dickens...

In His Opinion: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
Resolutions are, of course, dangerous thoughts to put to print publicly. As one wag wrote: “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling, he who makes one is a fool...”

The Last Word: BRITNEY SPEARS WILL APPEAR IN A LITERACY TV SPECIAL SPONSORED BY THE NBA

In Her Opinion: The New Patriots
Sure are a lot of American flags out there these days. The new patriots are a funny breed. I didn’t know it was so easy to be patriotic...