Opinion

Every American Deserves Secure and Fair Elections On July 16, President Trump addressed the nation where he presented allegations of foreign election interference and influence in 2018’s midterms and 2020’s presidential elections. Every American, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent or otherwise, should be able to agree...

“By their own admission, Fannie executives loosened their mortgage standards to regain market share (the profit motive), as well as to meet government housing mandates (the government-policy motive).” —James Hagerty, “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae,” p.195 Housing shortages and mortgage solutions are not new;...

You can hear them a long way before you see them. I’m talking about the hundreds of honey bees feasting on the highly nutritious pollen of the Crape Myrtle blossoms. I confess I don’t know a lot about keeping bees. I even had to...

Keep ‘Felton’ in Felton Fire I admit I’d been debating regarding our Felton Fire proposal vote. I’d been reading the opponents’ reasoned arguments and realized some probably made sense. But then I remembered the Measure W vote in 2005 and quickly changed my mind. For the...

“...fava beans and a nice Chianti.” —Hannibal Lecter After seeing the movie, “The Silence of the Lambs,” for many years I had a difficult time separating Anthony Hopkins from his role of (flesh-eating) Hannibal Lecter and cooking fava beans, which I really love to eat. I...

“Building costs are still high. There’s more we can do. This bill is nearly 50 provisions, but the problem is even bigger,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) stated. Congress submitted the “21st Century Road to Housing Act” for Presidential approval as Trump said the bill was...

I used to live in Bonny Doon where a huge Tasmanian Tree Fern grew without care on the “lower forty.” It was over 50 years old at the time of the fire having been planted by the original builder of the house. I guess...

Protect Felton Emergency Services I live near downtown Felton and 24 years ago, while pregnant, I experienced a medical emergency early in the morning. My husband called 911 and while he was still on the phone with the dispatcher, he could hear the sirens coming....

We hear a lot about the academic summer slide—the learning loss that can happen when kids are out of school for months at a time. But there’s another kind of summer slide that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: the mental health slide. And it...

I don’t grow corn in my small, shady garden, so I’m not sure how tall they’d be by now if I planted on May Day when the soil was 50 degrees, but that’s how the saying goes. This column isn’t about growing corn, however,...