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Tradition has it that we celebrate the new year with gaiety, wishing ourselves and others good luck, prosperity, good fortune and good health in the months

About this time of year in the world of Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge was surveying his past, present and with any luck, his future. It’s a good

Not too long ago, I was having a conversation with a friend, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination, also the recipie

Consider the dark fraternity of strongmen inhabiting today’s global political stage. Under the invisible cloak of counterfeit democracy lurk the like

Who and what is the biggest threat to America’s national security? The question conjures up sinister thoughts of ISIS, hypersonic strategic missiles,

The Times-Gazette printed an editorial from the Akron Beacon Journal not too long ago titled: “School kids who want to learn deserve better,” i

“Cabin fever” is the time-worn idiom for the angst of being constrained by small, confined spaces, like a long winter in a 200-square-foot cabi

Hillsboro from POTS to broadband Bill Sims Contributing columnist They used to call it POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service). According to Wikipedia, this was the standard phone service offered between 1876 and 1988. Of course, that all began to unravel when we gave birth to digital services and what came to be known as the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) — think copper wire vs. fiber optics and radio waves. The problem with POTS was that rural communities had difficulty getting serv...

A conversation with sixth-graders Bill Sims Contributing columnist I had the privilege this past week of being invited to speak to over 100 sixth-grade English language arts students and their teachers at the Hillsboro Middle School about writing, and why it’s so important to learn to be a good writer. We talked about the joy and historical importance of writing letters, keeping diaries, painting with words, and poetry. We talked about the value of letters and diaries over time and how they ...

Time for USA to muscle up Bill Sims Contributing columnist President Biden said in his speech to Congress this past week that China is betting that the U.S. can’t keep up with autocracy in the 21st century. Russia’s Putin has essentially said the same thing, several times. I say, “Game on.” If ever there was a rallying cry for team USA to take to the field, that’s it. President Xi likes to play hardball, but that’s our game; it’s not ping-pong. In 1976, I took the first group of ...