Newcomers tell me how they marvel at the seeming “agelessness” of valley, and how the limitless outlets for physical activity helps delay, prevent, and even manage many costly, chronic illnesses.  And while physical activity is critical to our wellbeing, it’s also...

Many believe the most pressing problem facing the nation today is the rising crime rate, where preliminary FBI data points to the largest single year increase in murders since the agency began publishing this data 60 years ago.  Meanwhile, cities across the U.S. have...

Do you recall when you first became consciously aware of color?  I do, my ‘awareness’ of color was accompanied by my first box of Binney & Smith Crayola Crayons—all eight of them.  But that was a millennia ago; today Crayons come in at least 124 colors including...

Education Week Magazine described Critical Race Theory as an academic concept embracing the core idea that racism is a social construct; that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. The...

A close long-time personal friend has a problem getting his letters-to-the-editor published for two reasons - first, the editor won't print anything longer than 200 words and getting a meaningful political message across in less than that is difficult and secondly, my...

No blog for me on this Memorial Day, just a most appropriate quote - "The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men." MINOT J. SAVAGE

Today I want to congratulate our graduating seniors, and at the same time offer a few insights I wish someone had given me when I graduated high school a million years ago.  And the first of those insights begins with the best definition of success I’ve ever come...

When solutions to complex societal issues aren’t readily apparent people will in many cases outsource their critical thinking to their favorite talking head on TV and then parrot that opinion. But issues such as the opioid epidemic, teenage suicide, police reform and...