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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 sentiment expressed by many commentators on the day, a return to normalcy. There is a piece of Joe Biden’...

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 weekend, told USA Today, “Politicians keep giving us false hope, but they are out of touch with t...

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 partisanship that reflects poorly on our democracy. The year 2021 looms great with opportunity for r...