Young people’s return to their classrooms each fall usually is a routine, uneventful exercise, even for young men and women transitioning from high school to a college environment. They’ve gone through the proverbial ritual of clothes-buying over the latter part of the summer, as well as ...

By itself, the Aug. 6 Mirror article about agencies working on emergency preparedness for the disabled should have been enough to bolster interest regarding the importance of the topic. But the arrival of Hurricane Debby — actually the remnants of the original weather event in the ...

There has been no shortage of political dialogue about the abortion issue, especially since the U.S. Supreme Court negated Roe v. Wade in 2022. Unfortunately, though, there has not been enough discussion about what an Aug. 9 Wall Street Journal headline described as “A life-or-death divide ...

It is instructive for officials of local-level governmental entities to watch what is happening in units of government around them. By doing that they can avoid others’ errors but also obtain valuable guidance on how to pursue their own projects or other initiatives. They also can obtain ...

Although much of the national attention is ­— and will continue to be — focused on developments related to the Nov. 5 presidential election, the world beyond the political front is far from being in slumber mode. For example, on the retail front, merchants are not sitting back, intent on ...

For the most part, adhering to laws, rules, regulations and/or just plain, routine expectations avoids many problems over the long run. Under a law passed by Congress in 1973, trains of the rail passenger service Amtrak are required to be given priority when they cross a freight railroad’s ...