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The North East Florida Jazz Association's Longineu Parsons Quintet concert, Michael Butler at AAUW: What is Academic Freedom?

I too found Dick Wright’s recent cartoon, depicting a doddering Joe Biden, more than offensive – not because of the so-called political content, but because of the tiresome, stereotypical, ageist portrayal of Biden (and, by extension, anyone post-middle age). While I am aware that the cartoon is protected by the right to free speech, the […]

Dick Wright’s recent cartoon depicting President Biden as a doddering old person was laughably inaccurate (March 9). President Biden has been keeping an extraordinarily vigorous and rigorous schedule of travel, meetings, speeches and diplomacy that a far younger person would find challenging. He has returned civility, thoughtful reasoning, and compassion to the presidency. His focus […]

I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment regarding the Dick Wright “cartoon” featured in the March 9 edition of the Press Herald. The cartoon was not even amusing. It lamely attempted to make fun of our President due to his age. I am not aware whether or not President Biden regularly takes a […]

Whatever possessed the Press Herald to print the totally insulting cartoon by Dick Wright of President Biden so prominently in the March 9 edition? It’s an insult, not only to Biden, but to all older folks. I am 80 years old and continue to be fully engaged in the world. I eat healthy food, work […]

Dick Wright’s syndicated cartoon, published in the Feb. 9 Press Herald (Page A4), was wildly off the mark in implying that President Biden is somehow lax on national security. If he paid any attention to learning the facts, instead of relying on right-wing soundbites, Wright would know that the Biden administration has been highly vigilant […]

There's not much to say about the place of truth and illusion in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? without spoilering Edward Albee's play, which is nearly as mandatory to watch as George Orwell is to read if you want any insights on what's happening around us today. Let's just say it deserved the stack of…

Hit (from reader Paul Matson): Here’s to the return of the Alpha Building, 210 Broad Street, Nevada City! Once managed by Bill Briggs with Downey Clinch managing the Grass Valley

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