I was a reasonably precocious if not terribly industrious boy, an incongruity that lasted into my early adulthood, when I discovered finally how average I really was and...

Whether you want an electric car to replace your dirty expensive gas guzzler or de- sire your school district buy electric buses to save money that could be put to better...

The world is seeing the effects of Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine in rising oil and natural gas prices. A much more serious im- pact is coming: a global food...

Sports were very important to me when I was growing up, an obsession that has waned into a passing interest over time. Sometimes today, when I see grown men covered in body...

“We’re not the party of Trump,” Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie told an interviewer a couple of months ago. “I’m in the Republican Party and the party of Lincoln....

A recent column in the New York Times argued that American voters “haven’t been worried like this in a long time” and that their fears could have a big influence in the...

It’s a tricky thing, comparing one era to another, especially from the perspective of personal experience. There are too many variables to be able to make valid comparisons...

Dear Editor, A few weeks back State Rep. Charlie Meier wrote to several newspapers claiming that CEJA (Climate and Equitable Jobs Act) passed last September will cause...

Dear Editor, This year, Memorial Day falls on May 30, 2022. In 1968, the United States Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day to...

Dear Savvy Senior, My doctor recently suggested I start a walking program to help get my weight and blood pressure under control, but I’ve never exercised much and am 66....

My parents were always social people, but the first real evidence I saw of it came when we lived in Upper Marlboro, a Washington, D.C. suburb about a dozen miles from the...

The summer between my second and third-grade years, we moved to the Washington D.C. suburb of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, beyond that, to a planned subdivision called...

Our family’s military life wasn’t as nomadic as many, but we moved several times during the course of my dad’s 20- year career, by the end of which he was so anxious to...

Is bipartisanship dead? Sometimes it seems like it is. Watching Democrats and Republicans fight over nearly everything, you’d think they can’t agree on the difference...

This series of autobiographical sketch- es would never pass muster as serious works of genealogy. There are too many gaps in my knowledge, and neither enough time nor...