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New passion for life needed Bill Sims Contributing columnist Time changes everything. The current time warp, bent by the coronavirus, has caused distortions that will change many things in our lives forever. It is impossible to be fully aware and comprehensive with what comes next, given the enormity of downstream global effects of COVID-19, but some things seem pretty clear. Let me tally some of the ways. The future of travel may be quite different. Like it or not, vaccine passports seem inev...

Angels of the battlefield. Many of us are familiar with the wartime heroics of the likes of Clara Barton, Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and Robert Bus

Huddled masses yearning to breathe Bill Sims Contributing columnist First of all, is it a crisis? The New Yorker Magazine, on April 5, put it this way: “The word ‘crisis’ is both an overstatement and an understatement of the situation. There were more families and children seeking asylum at the border under President Trump in 2019 than there are now but the pandemic has led to renewed desperation in Central America, as have two hurricanes that devastated the region last fall, displacing ...

As individuals of a prominent democratic nation entering the brave new world of digital existentialism, we need to come to terms with the inevitability of

Change: The only constant in life Bill Sims Contributing columnist Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers was on defense, but not from opposing linemen. Not only was he answering questions from the press about the outcome of the game after Tampa Bay beat the Packers for a trip to the Super Bowl, but also questions about his future, and speculation he might be looking to go to another team. That line of questioning led him to proffer the following sentiment for the sports writers to chew on...

A hill to climb lies ahead Bill Sims Contributing columnist Before the inauguration day was done, Jen Psaki, President Joe Biden’s new press secretary, held her first press conference. When asked what the president’s demeanor was like in his first day in the White House she paused for a moment and then said, “calm.” She recalled he’d said it felt like coming home. He had, of course, walked the halls of the White House for eight years; so much was familiar. This seemed to be a sentime...

Joanne Freeman, a history professor at Yale University, says that we are in a battle of words, not just politics. Freeman cites what happened last week at

Was last week’s disgraceful insurrection and assault on the U.S. Capitol a redux of the 1814 burning of the Capitol building? In a manner of speaking

Of Grinches and better angels Bill Sims Contributing columnist I sincerely wish all Highland County folks a merry Christmas and a happy new year, but there were some Grinches of this Christmas past. It was hard to watch the president playing golf while a bipartisan COVID-19 relief package, a Payroll Protection Program renewal and an expired unemployment benefits package sat on his desk along with the National Defense Authorization Act. Jo Marie Hernandez, whose unemployment aid lapsed over the...

Moving Christmas spirit forward Bill Sims Contributing columnist As we close the book on 2020 and look forward to a redemptive 2021, it’s hard not to ruminate over the wreckage we leave behind. It’s not just the daily deaths from COVID-19 that exceed the death totals of 9/11 or of Pearl Harbor, but the small businesses that were crushed and will never reopen, the loss of jobs that will never be recovered, the swelling lines at food banks in America, the evictions, and the coarse political ...