Senior citizens are toughest of all

Today’s Clinton Daily News honors and puts the spotlight on our older readers. And with good reason.

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.

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.The telescope is the most powerful...

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.

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 felt like I had horse blinders on," the soft-spoken cabinetmaker from Ohio told the Congressional committee investigating the events of that...

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.

Adult kids have no interest in relationship with mom

DEAR HARRIETTE: I feel like my kids as adults are losing respect for me. When your kids are young, they look up to you for everything and trust in you. My kids are all college age and older. They are leaving the nest and not looking back.

What visitors see that we don’t

Between the Riverside Rumble Couples Golf Tournament and the OK Kids Coach Pitch State Baseball Tournament last weekend, things were hopping in Clinton!It takes lots of people that are willing to donate their time and money to put on events like these.