You would have thought that after 20 years in Vietnam, the U.S. would have licked their wounds and discovered we don’t know everything. Vietnam’s shift from a centrally planned to a market economy has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world into a lower middle-income country. Vietnam now is one of […]

Thirty three years ago....seems like a lifetime. “Hey, Wife Patti, I’ve got an idea for a community newspaper.” That was the beginning of what would become the Times of Wayne County. Back then, the idea of starting a newspaper from scratch wasn’t far fetched. With no backing, or money, the first issue appeared some 33 years […]

No one wants to catch a virus that can possibly kill. At this point who, or what is responsible for the pandemic must be secondary to reality. So far there have been 39,895,980 cases in the U.S. and 629,862 deaths -  and that is nothing to sneeze at. Worldwide there have been 199,758,952 cases with […]

You got a wad of chewing gum in your mouth, but it has lost any, or all of its original flavor. So, do you follow human nature and just chuck it. This brings up several long-term environmental concerns if the gum were to be allowed to collect in landfills and our urban and rural landscapes. […]

Hell, no, you’re not going to believe this, (Especially if your a stupid Trump Republican), but this climate change thing is real. You know how those poor South American people and those African people are doing the migration thing? They claim it is because the climate is changing, throwing their whole economic and political lives […]

Yes, the Civil War ended in defeat for the South and for slavery. The following “Reconstruction” years turned out to be a disaster of historic proportions. “The South Shall Rise Again”, was the uncertain epitaph, generally, often mythically inscribed on municipal statues. Many of the following generations of White Southerners truly believed that little had […]

The old world concept of the American workweek if fading. Dad worked in a factory, Mom worked various jobs when I was young and somehow made ends meet. We were average, what I would call middle class folks, set in the ways of post war, long ago depression days. All four siblings worked while growing […]

Oooh, let’s start with the New York State Republicans. Idiotic GOP leaders (?) conducted a closed door straw poll to pick Long Island Republican Lee Zeldin as their candidate for face off against Democrat incumbent Andrew Cuomo for governor. Idiot Republican, so-called leaders chose Zeldin, an ally and supporter of former President Donald Trump. This, […]

Okay, you made a mistake. You went way too far in some cases trying to protect the poor, downtrodden people committing crimes. You felt the ‘poor’ poor could not make excessive bails, therefore you all but eliminated the power of the local courts to affix bails. Just about everybody, from drug dealers, killers, sex abusers, […]

So, the other day I was looking at one of those internet sites “Women of the 60s-70s and what they look like now” I was totally taken back on some, no most, of the ‘femme fatale’ and how those once sexy, desirable figures seemed to have let themselves go. Where were those fabulous faces, figures, […]