(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial was originally published November 6, 2024.) Elon Musk is very interesting and inspiring to me. He strikes me as being so intelligent it’s as though he must slow down his brain enough to articulate words. He is clearly shy, his speech at times halting, and he o...

To many in the newspaper industry, there is a perceived battle raging between newspapers and social media. From my standpoint, it’s not so much of a battle as a shift in the public’s information dynamics that newspapers need to harness rather than wage war against. But there is a question I find mys...

My bonus grandson is just a few days away from graduating at Jena High School and adventuring into adulthood. Like all graduates, he has some important and exciting decisions to make and endless opportunities ahead of him. It was only a minute ago that he was peeking at me over the edge of the churc...

Allow me to use this space to wish a very special person a happy Mother’s Day - but do so in an unusual way. Just a few days after Mother’s Day, May 1...

I return to this topic given the historic nature of the ruling and its novelty involving a Louisiana case, Callais v. Louisiana. This past week the Su...

Because my daddy was an oilfield man, we moved from town to town, state to state, and from stem to stern quite frequently during my growing up years. ...