BY FRANK P. BELCASTRO Healthcare costs are killing us. After paying more than any other country in the world, we get the 37th best coverage....

BY CECIL ACUFF Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Martin took medic Paul Franks' middle-finger gesture as a sign of defiance. Should every road-rager react in...

BY FROMA HARROP While walking recently on a crowded Manhattan sidewalk, I suddenly saw a wall of water crash down from somewhere over our heads. The source was a truck from which a fat hose was pouring water on the flower baskets hanging from posts. The baskets were intended to add some charm to the […]

BY JOE CONASON Within the coming weeks, Americans will begin to consider critical issues concerning the future of health care for themselves and their children, including universal coverage, taxation of benefits, computerized records and the controlling of costs. But before the debate commences in Congress and the media, big insurance and pharmaceutical companies are lobbying […]

BY JAMES NIMMO As a semi-professional musician I provided music at the same-gender marriage recently of two friends of mine, the latest ceremony of uncountable...