Columns

It’s August. Many young people head off to college. This year, fortunately, fewer will go.

Readers of The Daily Courier may have noticed that over the past few months, I have been getting outside of City Hall to meet citizens face to face around Prescott.

Recent and expected Supreme Court rulings regarding the authority of federal regulators have put the regulatory bureaucracy in the spotlight.

With school starting up again, fall sports season is just around the corner (Has it really been 41 years since I competed in cross-country running and distance track as a senior?), ...

Declining attention spans have reached epidemic levels. ... That’s certainly the case with me.

I marvel at the people who invented the products and technologies we use today. Whilst I’m in awe of them, I wonder why I’ve never experienced a blinding stroke of creativity ...

This essay is in response to “Science & Sense: The hypocrisy of electric vehicles,” by Kelly W. Kading, published in The Daily Courier on July 15.

In a red Ohio referendum this week, forced-birth reactionaries got blown out by a whopping margin of 430,000 votes. No word yet on whether Roe v. Wade killer Donald Trump has aspirationally asked Republican election officials to find 430,001 votes.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently announced a petroleum “find” in the west Texas Permian Basin of enormous size and importance (west Texas produces about 40% of our nation’s oil).

After 67 years, you would expect to build many good memories together, including stories about your life your kids still laugh about and share. Bob was a dentist and Peggy ran a health food store.

On Aug. 1, the rating agency Fitch dropped the U.S. government’s long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+.

When one considers the prospect of widening Highway 89 through the Granite Dells area – which flies in the face of Dells preservation efforts – I found it interesting what “Mike” from Prescott had to say.

We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.”

CJ Box is the amazingly successful author of the Joe Pickett series of novels.

Conservatives are often hesitant to criticize other conservatives.

This summer, I’ve been forced to walk my dog at nights since it’s just too dang hot during the day, as I’m sure many of you do the same. Going on walks at night has its perks though.

Goodbye, incandescent light bulb. You had a heck of a run before the government decided you wasted energy and effectively outlawed you out of existence.

Last fall, I wrote a column about the mysterious number “33” on the back of Rolling Rock bottles and cans of beer. ...

In August 2013, exactly 10 years ago, the Prescott Police Foundation was created by Michael and Sharon Broggie, two uniformed C.O.P. (Citizens On Patrol) volunteers for the Prescott Police Department.

Actor Charles Durning’s D-Day memories were so painful that for decades he suppressed them.

I would like to extend a congratulations to the newly elected Prescott Council and to the re-elected mayor of Prescott.

Silly as it is, I always get a little pop of pride as I turn into the Yavapai County building on Fair Street and push my ballot into the star-spangled drop box.

In the Democrats’ stepped-up offensive against presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a faint whiff of panic is in the air, a stirring of concern that no good can come from one of the nation’s most storied political names lingering on the fringes of the party’s President Biden re-election strategy.

Prescott’s voters have spoken. The voting public elected outright candidates for five seats on the City Council this week.

There is actually a Democratic governor who cares about economic freedom! He’s Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.