Rick Holmes: Unanswered questions after Boston Marathon bombings
The cover of Rolling Stone asked a question by combining a compelling photo Dzhokhar Tsarnaev looking young, handsome, sensitive, mysterious with a bold headline: Bomber. How did a kid who looked...
View ArticleEditorial: Rational policy for e-cigarettes
The growing popularity of e-cigarettes raises two issues for policymakers one of them simple, the other more complicated.E-cigarettes serve up nicotine extract in a vaporized form, cooking it without...
View ArticleEditorial: The Dream, as yet unfulfilled
A 22-year-old Australian man, in the United States to attend college and play baseball, was senselessly gunned down in Oklahoma recently.Christopher Lane did nothing to provoke the attack. In Duncan,...
View ArticleMaking Cents: Review estate plans now, rest in peace later
Talking about the follies of wealthy or famous people is so popular that even the lousy estate plans that they leave makes headline news. Think about all the celebs, like James Gandolfini who have left...
View ArticleGet A Life: Too many pictures
I was cleaning out the closet in my office the other day and came across two cameras. Both would be considered antiquated at this point since smartphones seem to have taken their place. It is now...
View ArticleJeff Vrabel: Ben Affleck as Batman?
At the risk of being one of the only people on the Internet writing about this Ben-Affleck-as-the-new-Batman thing I know, I know, no one cares, obviously, since theres a noticeable absence of...
View ArticleKent Bush: Dispelling the pop culture fantasies
Im no prude.I always try to be a good guy, a good father and do the right thing. But I dont think of myself as the male version Dana Carveys Saturday Night Live character the Church Lady.When I...
View ArticleDr. Elaine Heffner: Are apps good for young children?
It seems like only yesterday that controversy raged about whether watching TV was good or bad for young children. The argument then moved on to the Baby Einstein videos and their educational claims....
View ArticleMark L. Hopkins: Are we in a constitutional crisis?
Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, and it is fitting that once each year we set aside a day of commemoration for this one-of-a-kind document that changed the way countries and people are governed all around...
View ArticlePhilip Maddocks: Boehner hopeful that Putin will now help U.S. avoid fiscal...
For the first time in more than a year, House Speaker John A. Boehner expressed confidence that lawmakers will agree to a deficit-reduction deal and recalcitrant conservatives will be persuaded to...
View ArticleKent Bush: GOP falling victim to echo chamber
Insulated opinions cause problems in any organization.If your belief about how you or your product is viewed is developed solely within the walls of your establishment, you are probably wrong.The...
View ArticleMark L. Hopkins: A diverse population, and becoming more so
From coast to coast and from mountains to bayous, we are more diverse as a people than any other country in the world. That is true in religion, in language, in politics and even in how we look. What a...
View ArticlePhilip Maddocks: Many in the GOP doubt the importance of the Higgs boson
As President Barack Obama steps up his declarations about the dire consequences of not raising the debt limit, an increasing number of Congressional Republicans have started to shift their focus from...
View ArticleMark L. Hopkins: Looking at the national debt from a historical perspective
Well, here we are again. The government is in a partial shutdown and the debt limit problem is pending. Held hostage are many federal employees, multiple government functions and having enough money to...
View ArticleMatthew T. Mangino: The plight of children of incarcerated parents
This summer, Sesame Street added a new character to its lineup. The show introduced Alex, a child whose father is in prison. Sesame Street has taken on the issue of children of incarcerated parents...
View ArticleMichelle Teheux: Economists, meet the poor
I havent yet read Alan Greenspans new book, The Map and the Territory, but the reviews seems to suggest nobody saw the economic catastrophe of 2008 coming. My own observations tell me that most...
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