Opinion

From the Editor’s Desk

With the warmer weather, the dog has had many more opportunities to explore the great outdoors.

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I’m really liking this warmer weather, although it makes me a little nervous.

The Lowe Down: Believing in fairy tales…

There is a detective story by Lemony Snicket called, “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” and in the book is a character called Dashiell Qwerty who is quoted as saying, “They say in every library there is a book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.” My immediate thought, “But what if that book is banned from your library?” Americans should be trusted to make their own decisions about what they and their children read.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: The winter blues has got me bad, Mama…

Winter can hit a person hard and when we drop down to zero and below and the wind is out of the north, I walk the deserted streets, no sign of civilization, just blinking red lights, and come home and see in the window the reflection of a wreck of a man, and I think, “Nobody knows you when it’s ten below.

From the Editor’s Desk

I generally write my column on the verge of the deadline of my first newspaper (early in the morning on Mondays before I even have my coffee - rather, mostly while I’m having my first cup of coffee).