The most important and challenging issue we face today is economic – how do we recover from the unprecedented downturn and move toward a stable, healthy economy?...(more)

When training as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, I thought...(more)

No one likes to talk about taxes, particularly politicians. But this spring, you will need to decide on two levies – roads and the hospital. And they could not have come at a worse time....(more)

It sure doesn’t feel like election day with these warm days and t-shirts making their seasonal debut – but it is. And it’s an important one – the primary election - where you will decide on two levies...(more)

Why is it that we find it so much easier to think about what’s wrong, what we don’t have, how things could - should - would be better?

We complain about the ski resort, the...(more)

My husband and I have two willful boys who challenge us most of the time. The most effective advice I’ve had on being a parent is simple: be consistent, be fair and enforce the rules. ...(more)

The Valley Citizen is right. The new courthouse is a rub on the county. No doubt if we had to do it over again, with today’s economic reality, I think there would be a lot of things that would be ...(more)

It seems that every generation has its period of economic hardship – the Great Depression for my grandparents and the recession of the 80s for my parents. And now we have ours. There is no hiding the ...(more)

When I was a kid my mom made me play with my cousin Lisa. We didn’t have much in common...(more)