Americans love ribbon cuttings. We celebrate the groundbreaking. We admire the rendering. We announce the project cost. Politicians gather for photographs. Local headlines proclaim progress. Then we move on. What rarely receives the same attention is what happens 10, 20, or 30 years later ...

First off, I have to apologize. The trip to the Redwoods was entirely my idea. I was seized with the compulsion to go before the war with Iran broke out. Naturally, I assumed that if we took a trip with lots of long drives that gas prices would go up for the occasion, but I had no idea it would ...

Smoking or non-smoking? For those of a certain age, this was a question you’d get asked when entering a restaurant, or when booking flights or hotel rooms. People smoked absolutely everywhere: buses, airplanes, offices, schools, at home. Even in hospitals. NHL players used to smoke in the ...

No nation has expressed more lofty ideals than the USA did 250 years ago in its Declaration of Independence. The overall purpose of the Declaration was to throw off the yoke of British imperialism. To prove the illegitimacy of British imperial rule, the declaration proclaimed that governments ...

The 2026 World Cup came to a close Sunday with Spain defeating Argentina 1-0 in an extra-time thriller. Overall, the World Cup hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico has been a huge hit and there were so many feel-good stories. Whether it was foreign visitors falling in love with our ...

In October 1838, the governor of Missouri signed an order declaring that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must be driven from the state or destroyed. Three days later, militiamen descended on a settlement at Hawn's Mill and opened fire, killing seventeen men and boys. ...