I feel and understand the pain of the young man whose letter-to-the-editor was posted in today’s (Saturday Feb. 21st) paper. I had a long-term problem with drinking after my divorce in 1983 but eventually got it together emotionally and re-learned…

Two letters in the paper Monday, one after the other, that highlighted for me how wrong headed Americans can be when it comes to crime. The writer of the first letter related the rise in crime in the city, especially…

The recent piece Bill McClellan wrote on America’s “drug war” and its effects on crime in Mexico (”Phelps story shows we should say no to drug war”, Feb. 9) had me thinking of the legalization of marijuana. Sure, if we…

Olympian Michael Phelps is in good company. The list of professional athletes caught using marijuana is long. Could it be that drug warriors have been lying about marijuana’s health impact? They’ve definitely been lying about the deterrent value of marijuana…