Letter: Pledge of Allegiance is not a litmus test for patriotism
In a recent social media post, the president of the Burrillville Town Council, Don Fox, targeted a member of the community who attended a town council meeting for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance....
Mothers: A weekly excerpt from Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sanity
Mother's Day is coming fast. It reminds me how lucky I was to have a good, caring mother who watched out for me all her life. Mothers are like that.
Sometimes, of course, that watching...
Letter: Transparency would be enhanced by creation of a public land trust in Burrillville
The below letter was sent to Stephen Casey, chairman of the House Committee on Housing & Municipal Government regarding proposed House Bill 6283, found here. A letter in opposition to the same bill can be...
Letter: Effort to create ‘Burrillville Land Conservancy’ undermines conservation work
The below letter was sent to Stephen Casey, chairman of the House Committee on Housing & Municipal Government regarding proposed House Bill 6283, found here. A letter in support of the same bill...
From the editor’s desk: We are not Facebook & we will not pick a...
In our politically tumultuous times, it has become harder than ever to do my job.
I say this not to illicit sympathy, but rather because, as the population is bombarded with bias information from the...
Letter: ICE detentions chill freedom of speech and the right to dissent
The recent spate of ICE detentions are all the bad things rolled into one: racial profiling, lack of due process, suppression of free speech, religious intolerance, authoritarian state power, (and) failure to respect human dignity.
A...
Swamp rafting: A weekly excerpt from Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sanity
I was sitting here thinking what intriguing, exciting, absolutely mind-boggling experience I would pen for this week's column, when it hit me: swamp rafting.
It was just about this time also that my wife strolled...
