These are frightening times for our country. Police officers Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola were killed in an ambush Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. That happened barely a week after five officers were shot and killed and seven others wounded by a sniper in Dallas. Those ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that Americans should be eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in refined grains and added sugars. However, through the billions of dollars in subsidies the USDA doles out each year, it is saying something quite different. Overwhelmingly, ...
Shed no tears for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Brady, the star quarterback of the National Football League team, announced on Friday that he will discontinue his fight against the decision by the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, to suspend the player for four games. As every ...
The chasm between reality and the world of technology As if people needed more reasons to walk around staring at their phones, along comes "Pokemon Go" - a game for smartphones that has rocketed to the top of the charts that track the sales of phone apps. It's a modern-day ...
It comes as no surprise that the law that took effect in July 2015 has not, a year later, prevented many people from continuing to read and send emails and shoot off way too many text messages while driving. After all, if laws were all it took to correct irresponsible and dangerous behavior, ...
Nashua aldermen should think hard when considering a bill that would allow the city's finance director to black out names of those receiving payments from the city. The bill, which was requested by Nashua Police Chief Andrew Lavoie, starts out with the noble purpose of seeking to keep ...