Is Whitney Houston’s death at 48 really the most important news story in the entire world? Read More

This is the opinion page. Far too often it is graced only with my opinion, or maybe the musings of Ed Koch or George Will, or some other clever pundit who could not point DeKalb County out on a map. Read More

For those of us who haven’t caught on yet, Suboxone, as well as its brother Subutex, are drugs used to get people off drugs. Read More

According to information disseminated by a rash of political action committees with names like Make Us Great Again, Winning Our Future, Restore Our Future and others this election season, the entire field of Republican candidates for president is a cadre of liars, cheats, liberals and abusers of pets. Read More

When I was a teenager, already plotting by what means I might escape this backward little ‘burg ( or ‘ville, I suppose), my father told me that he thought Smithville was a crappy little town when he was a young man too, and that he couldn’t wait to get away from here. Read More