Regardless of your politics, the scenes coming out of Minneapolis are horrifying. Hopefully, as Americans, we can all still agree on that much, at least. Perhaps you think it’s self-inflicted, and that citizens should keep their heads down and let the work happen. Perhaps you view government ...

The hands of time move ever-forward, and as those hands spin round and round, life...happens. Long-running elected officials and members of civic boards grow old (or older, in some cases). While you have been going about your business, these people have been sacrificing their evenings to make ...

It’s the end of one year, and the beginning of another, and we are feeling contemplative. In yesterday’s edition of The Express, we ran a story on B3 about how, as newspapers fade, people who used them for things other than reading are being forced to adapt (here’s a link, if that ...

There are moments in time where the world just feels happier. We reflect on those moments — things like Woodstock or, for a younger generation, the summer of Pokemon Go — as brief flickers, glimpses of a happier world where we can just let the cold reality fall away, for a little while, ...

It’s no great secret that our healthcare system is broken. While a tired joke about American school shootings goes “there is no way to stop this, says only country that can’t stop this,” the same cannot be said of healthcare. Our system is famously busted — in keeping with the ...

Though “tis the season” for holiday cheer, we’ve noticed a dark cloud of negativity has descended on our area in recent weeks, ranging from individuals upset at what they consider to be a lack of festive decorations to changes in what many apparently thought was an unchanging tradition. ...