Regulation of service animals is needed

It is December 2025 in America, do you know who your city council member is? How about your school board members or county board representative? Newscasts and headlines focus on state and national headlines and the decision makers whose wisdom (or foolishness, depending on your perspective) guides policy and actions at those levels. Americans are barraged with a constant stream of breaking news...

Here’s a Christmas story, with a factual reality. We have an unknown group of people involved with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s activities. There’s also the victims, the law enforcement agencies, the judges, lawyers, court clerks, witnesses, and all the people who were employed by Epstein and his wealthy visitors, doing their domestic jobs, who were around their employers 24/7. And all...

My daughter’s coworkers think her dad is nuts. At least that was her report to me from the admittedly small sample size of people she polled about it. Beth recently started a teaching job in the Prentice School District and, because the rent at Mom and Dad’s house is cheaper than the gas, she is commuting from Medford. For those who haven’t made the trip recently, it is about a 40-minu...