Son’s social snub dumbfounds mother

DEAR HARRIETTE: I went to college orientation with my son, and he ran into a few students from his high school. He immediately began to talk to them, and at the same time, he completely ignored me. He did not introduce me to them or anything.

Can Trump really be trusted?

As the Congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2020, insurrection paused for a summer recess, Rep.

Senior citizens are toughest of all

Today’s Clinton Daily News honors and puts the spotlight on our older readers. And with good reason. Discrimination in any form is simply heinous, but when people look down upon or worse, try to take advantage of the elderly, then that gets our ire up really quick.

D.C. feels sting of Biden border policy

Recently, this column focused on the Biden administration’s practice of allowing illegal border crossers to stay in the United States. Documents made public as a result of a lawsuit over border policy revealed just how many illegal crossers the administration has admitted into the country.

Views from billions of years ago

The first images from NASA's James Webb telescope offer wondrous glimpses into stars and planets billions of light years away: in what is truly a space opera, the telescope shows them being born and dying, and cosmic material being sucked into black holes.

Lime rickeys at the local drug store

The view from Maine is summertime lovely, the sunshine shimmery, the sky the sort of nautical blue you never see even a quarter-mile from the shore. A solitary sailboat, bouncing on flukey breezes, creases the ocean.

Observational studies shed light on diet soda consumption

Dear Doctors: There is some folklore that diet pop is bad for you. I gave up sugar and most carbohydrates to help with weight and A1C control, but I continued to drink diet cola. What do the actual studies – ones that are not from biased sources and are peer-reviewed – say about diet cola?

Adult daughter showed up drunk to dinner

DEAR HARRIETTE: My 25-year-old daughter showed up visibly drunk to our family dinner. I know that she is a grown adult, but we were at dinner with her conservative grandparents who don't condone alcohol consumption at all. She was loud and a bit sloppy, and I didn't appreciate it.

Take the blinders off

Stephen Ayres was drawn to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, by Donald Trump's outrageously false claims that the presidential election had been stolen.

I’ve decided that I’m good enough

I had a big birthday, and it got me to thinking, as big birthdays will, about what would change and what would stay the same in the decade to come. I found my list of self-improvement chores much shorter than in previous years.I used to exhaust myself with these lists.