By Blaney Pridgen The White House has been said to be “the people’s house”. I have always liked that and it has always been a relatively simple house in sharp contrast to the palaces of the great and powerful. It was not a Versailles, Kremlin, or Buckingham but simply a fine old house of believable […]
By Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. Have you ever marched in a protest march? Have you ever participated in a protest demonstration? When I […]
By Marvin Langley All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. There is an old saying “time changes everything.” Things change.. Things come and go but there has been more […]
By Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. In his play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare has Mark Antony famously saying of the recentlyassassinated leader, “The evil that […]
By Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. I first ran this poem in my column in July of last year, when the prospect of a […]
By Blaney Pridgen All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. Those nagging feelings of guilt we often have are a part of being human. There arethree kinds. The […]
By Eric P. Robinson, USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. Under the federal Freedom of Information Act, government agencies are […]
By Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. In researching material for this week’s OpEd, I checked what I had written last year atthis time. It […]
By Blaney Pridgen All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. At the lawn and garden section of Lowe’s, you will almost always see someonepaying for a heavy bag […]
By Bob Wilson All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. The Council is voting on a plan to limit development in the Sweetwater area that is flawedbecause it is […]