Common theme in busy week

There’s a lot that can happen in a week, particularly when it’s a heavy news cycle. The days feel long and Monday feels like an eternity ago. There’s been a lot going on worth talking about. Here are some comments about some things that happened this past week with a common theme attaching them all.

Ash Wednesday for former U.S. Senator

On his 54th birthday, former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska was given a cake that proclaimed, “Happy last Birthday Ben!”“I have the best friends,” the former senator wrote on Feb. 22, his smiling face weary from chemotherapy as he held the cake in a social media post.

An enduring light to a community

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. – “No star fades faster than that of a high-school athlete,” the author John Grisham wrote in his 2006 book “The Innocent Man.

First responders are always there

It’s not exactly recommended to be in the vicinity of a calamitous situation involving first responders, in fact, it’s actually discouraged. Stay out of the way, if at all possible, please. Let the professionals serving Clinton and Custer County take over.

The U.S. is in reverse regarding climate

Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a billion dollars last year – at an estimated total loss of $115billion. The last three years have shattered previous records for such events.

We can do better for our country

When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “I felt my legs were praying,” he said.

Olympics help quell sports shortage

Usually this time of year it becomes a sports wasteland of sorts with football wrapped up and the wait for baseball to fire back up.That’s certainly changed though through the years thanks to the Thunder. College basketball only really gets good in March.

We’re finally traveling back to the moon

For more than a half-century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface unexplored, its far side unexamined, its mysteries left fallow.

Who won this round of culture war?

After the Puerto Rican superstar rocked the halftime show at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump derided his performance as “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!

Sen. Lankford points out ‘Fumbles’

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, it’s obvious to state money and politics have been going steady for quite some time now. At root is taxpayers’ money and how it’s used. U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has recently released his ninth edition of “Federal Fumbles.