Democracy is loud and messy

810 That is the number of minutes of sunlight that Taylor County residents will have today. From sunrise at 6:17 a.m. to sunset at 7:47 p.m. and every minute in between. Looking at it other ways, it works out to be 13 hours and 30 minutes or 48,600 seconds. Regardless, of how many slices you chop it up into, the length of this particular day doesn’t change. The question to each of us is, w...

It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...

Budgets season is the most wonderful time of the year. I feel the need to put an asterisk next to that statement. In an absolute sense, it is perhaps as only wonderful, to a very select group of people. OK, that group of people might also entirely overlap with who looks back at me when I stare dead-eyed into my bathroom mirror each morning. Still, since this is my column, I feel comfortable ...