Opinion

KARAN’S KORNER Join us in celebrating Healthy Weight Week, Jan. 22-28, 2023, the 30th annual event.

GUEST COLUMNIST In the 1980s, I repeatedly watched a recorded copy of the film “Escape from New York” on my family’s Panasonic VCR – complete with tuning knobs the size of hubcaps.

GUEST COLUMNIST Before Republicans agreed to elect Kevin Mc-Carthy Speaker House, a handful of his colleagues demanded the implementation of a fiscal framework to rein in federal spending. The threat of spending reduction has launched a full debt ceiling “default” panic.

The Israelites gave us two innovative ideas: First, that history has a God-directed purpose.

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: Was this past fall’s heavy acorn crop due to the serious drought or just a random occurrence? Nut-producing trees are noted for being “alternate bearing.” They will have a heavy crop one year and a very light crop the next, swinging back and forth like a pendulum.

January is upon us. The New Year has started and you may have started a diet so what better way to reflect and think about soup.

Voters are, to understate their mood, disenchanted with Congress. Yet paradoxically, voters re-elect, over and over, the same representatives they hold in dismally low esteem, consider ineffectual and out-of-touch.

When you have the beginning of a cold, nothing sparkly to wear and you really hate New Year’s, you watch television.

Some of us do not wrestle with God or faith as much as we wrestle with the Church. Research is showing more people are maintaining belief in Christ but abandoning their commitment to the community that bears his name.

Dear Neil: You have described Oakland hollies and they sound like just what I need for privacy. How well do they tolerate rocky soils, and when should they be planted? I’ll take the easy question first.