Editorials

You will notice a theme in the other editorials on this page. The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is naturally on the minds of pretty much anyone with access to any pulpit at all, like a newspaper column. It makes it difficult for me to justify yet another bit of frippery about my cats. Normally, I try not to get too heavily into politics these days, mostly because of my other gig for this paper: reporting the news. I worry about writing opinion on something, anything, I might be called on to report about in an unbiased manner.

Preventive maintenance. The roof caving in on the old power plant could have been prevented through routine maintenance. However, there is more to the story than just a ‘tsk tsk’ to city officials.

The city is in a bit of a pickle. It is too expensive to keep the power plant running and maintenance on a building is time consuming and expensive. However, the city still owns it and uses the facility for storage.

I originally bought this house for my mother, never expecting that I would ever be living in it myself.

There comes that time that we all must face when a parent is gone. Aside from the big duties, there are a lot of little jobs that must be done. Chances are, you never thought about them until the time came. I certainly didn’t. I've been putting them off and putting them off and I can't put them off any longer.