In a previous column I noted that in 1956 the Elmira School Board renamed three elementary schools after prominent Elmirans. School No. 8 was renamed after Harry J. Lagonegro, School No. 9 was renamed ...

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Mark Coleman, left, is communications director/managing editor for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii; Colin Grabow is a Grassroot Scholar and an associate director at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A.

The Chicago Cubs opened the gates of Wrigley Field on April 4 with a 7-1 win over the San Diego Padres, kicking off what would be a wild season on the North Side. The Northwestern Wildcats closed ...

I’m admiring the orange and yellow leaves on the trees and noticing the varying patterns of branches on the trees that have already lost their leaves on a morning walk when I round the corner and see ...

The Department of Justice is under fire from eight huffy Republican senators. They want financial retribution for what they consider wrongful searches of their phone records by federal investigators ...

With high school’s end nearing, I’ve found myself more and more afraid. While I’ve looked forward to graduation since freshman year, I now dread the idea of leaving — leaving friends who know every ...

George Clooney recently teased that he’d join his former colleague Noah Wyle’s latest medical drama series The Pitt “in a heartbeat”. Clooney and Wyle starred together on NBC medical drama ER for a ...

University of Texas at Arlington faculty member Patricia Eddings was aiming high when she first proposed that the Arlington Police Department allow her criminal justice students to dive into unsolved ...

Today, bureaucrats scan spreadsheets to cancel federal grants containing the words “climate change.” And yet, during a recent trip to Duluth, I saw work on a $3.15 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Think global, act local. It’s a common, commonsense mantra for many charitable organizations. And for some locally based, globally focused entities, the mission is to do both. Organizations like ...

Madonna couldn’t do it. Neither could Justin Timberlake or Britney Spears. And so far, neither have (apologies to their many, many fans) Harry Styles, Beyoncé or Taylor Swift. With “Wicked: For Good,” ...