Tag: Column By John Young

TweetPinShareEditorial By John Young Back when I ran a small-town paper, for a short time we had a feature popular in the era, the “man on the street” interview. Besides …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young They are seventh graders who’ve taken over the middle school. They are hooligans who, after looting the Glocks & Ammo outlet store, believe they now run …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Remarkably, he still had his hair when the beginning came – the beginning of his afterlife. That powdered egg pelt: still enough to comb combatively. That …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Recently, we’ve seen a new breed of first responders when disaster hits. Not the fire department. Not the EMTs. Not the cops. No, even faster are …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young The executioner’s clock ticked. The felon-elect paced the floor. Surely, the Supreme Court would deliver a reprieve. When only four of his man-servants – Alito, Thomas, …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.  – Molly Ivins In the quest toward a wiser and more just society, my wife …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young A game: Go around the circle: Name a high-profile figure (one without an inmate number) who’s less qualified to be attorney general than noted child connoisseur …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young My little canine friend and I have a favorite walking place: the nearest college campus. It’s a place of great sensations for a dog, and I’m …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Is anything more in tune with our times than debating whether Brian Thompson had it coming? No, not the debate about how high health insurers rank …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young  I’ve seen this voter before. It was 1988 when the nation considered Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush for president. I don’t know how the conversation …