CHAUTAUQUA—With Donald Trump having been almost assassinated and Joe Biden having stood down, we interrupt this unexpectedly serious fortnight in American history for a word about comedy. Yes, comedy. ı ı ı Actress Sally Struthers played Archie and Edith’s daughter, Gloria, on the ...

This hot weather got me to thinking about how I eat when it is too warm to cook. I have several go-to things. First, I love cottage cheese. I fix cottage cheese with fruit and call it a meal. That makes a no bother lunch. Sometimes I go to my herb patch and get some chives. I like to put those ...

The last article was an introduction to my professional link to working with clients professing ideology of self-destructive behaviors. I was fortunate and blessed to have had a golden opportunity to connect with an established county based 24-hour hotline. The public was served via telephone ...

To The Reader’s Forum: The Presidential debate last Thursday - and now all this talk about President Biden’s mental competency. Isn’t the obvious solution to have him evaluated by a psychologist? What about the 25th Amendment? But then the obvious answer which we have seen ...

A few weeks ago, the OBSERVER and Post-Journal printed an article about the extremely high cost of running our public schools. The OBSERVER and Post-Journal were right to point out that an average cost of $30,000 per student per year, with some districts spending as much as $36,000 per year ...

Celebrating Independence Day can’t overlook the faith of those who led it. On a thread over social media, a professor of Philosophy and Humanities at St. Louis University, made a claim saying, “The founders were deists, not Christians...” I couldn’t let that go, so I responded, “Who ...