Category: Reflections

I flew on a plane a couple of weeks after the ban on liquids went into effect. I have chronically dry hands, and when traveling …

Jim Crow is alive and well at CBS. The network has announced that contestants in the next “Survivor” will be divided into ethnic “tribes” including …

George Steinbrenner has always ranked among the most hated New Yorkers. I can recall decades ago watching a weeknight Yankee game on television when the …

Users of Microsoft’s instant-messaging services can now click a “Report Abuse” button to alert law- enforcement officials to a conversation with a child predator. A …

“I left because I didn’t feel safe anymore as a Christian,” a woman from Leba- non told me recently at dinner, explaining why she and …

The nation has again “celebrated” Labor Day. But what about replacing it with a truly festive occasion? Call it Entrepreneurs’ Day. Of the four factors …

The Lobster House, started in 1936 in Cape May, is the largest independent (non-chain) restaurant in New Jerse)T, the 18th largest independent in the United …

I acknowledge that some refugees from flooded New Orleans were sick or elderly, and they didn’t want to flee their homes; however, nearly a year …

Dr. Stephen Dresch (1943-2006), a Yale-educated economist who served one term (1991-92) in Michigan’s House of Representatives, died Aug. 6. Dresch won public office as …

This country’s schools have effectively been nationalized. Officially, there is still competition between school districts, and among public schools, private schools, and home schools, but …