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There are evolving rules on this topic that folks can't anticipate or don't yet understand.

Preventing disasters is a thankless task. No one ever notices when a disaster is avoided.

February 16, 2021 at 11:01 AM Shares4 This column is almost uniquely suited to this forum: It’s a thought on a topic of general interest that is probably too difficult to express in a sound bite to a lay audience, but that the average reader here will immediately understand. Early last week, the Senate voted 55-45 that it was constitutional to impeach a sitting president and later to convict him after he was out of office. Democrats promptly argued that the constitutionality of the impeachmen...

You thought Trump on the telephone was bad? Trump as a witness will be a true disaster.

John Trenholme died Nov. 23. He was 81. John Trenholme, a pioneer in laser physics who left a lasting impact on the field, passed away from a rare neurological illness on Nov. 23, 2020. He was 81.  Much of Trenholme’s work came to fruition in the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where his years of basic research yielded mathematical descriptions of fundamental optical physics, nonlinear optics and optimized system designs capable of delivering the request...

Elway himself responded to the mindful matter Tuesday at the 45-minute introductory media Zoom conference. I asked John, who remains president of football operations, that should the new general manager bring him a potential trade for, say, a franchise-type quarterback who could cost the Broncos three first-round draft choices and two star players, would he invoke veto power or offer his opinion and allow George to make the ruling. “I’m going to add my input obviously on something that has ...

Columnist Mark Herrmann’s mind is divided by the state of society, so he writes two remarkable contrasting posts in one.

Every American must read Mark Herrmann’s breathtaking thought experiments about last week’s assault on the Capitol.

The Heisman, Drew Brees, Bob Griese and an odd year By Kenny Thompson Bob Griese • • • It would be so 2020 if somehow Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith beat out Crimson Tide quarterback Mac Jones, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Florida quarterback Kyle Trask when the winner of the Heisman Trophy is announced Tuesday night on ESPN. No wide receiver has won the Heisman since Michigan’s Desmond H...

December 31, 2020 at 11:00 AM Shares4 Do you think we should have a time capsule for 2020? Obviously, masks, hand sanitizers, virus tests of whatever sort and kind, face shields, all the other PPE would go in there, but what else? Obituaries for the hundreds of thousands who have already died, and whose numbers continue to climb? And where to place that capsule? And how long before it’s opened? I don’t think there is anyone on the planet who will have any regrets when 2020 beats its retreat...