At 78 years of age, could he be entering periods of “mini-pause”? Letters should be original and no longer than 250 words. Letters must include the author’s name, street address or telephone ...

The legislature has reached the halfway point, and I worry our lawmakers don’t have their priorities straight. My biggest concern is K-12 funding. Governor Kelly Armstrong proposed 2% increases ...

Those of us who have studied literature at some point often find ourselves recalling a scene in a book, perhaps a quote from a favorite author or a poem that comes to mind in light of a current ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs returned to federal court in New York City on Friday, pleading not guilty to the latest version of an indictment charging him with two decades of sex ...

Cody Hendricks is a leader that local workers can depend on, and so Laborers Local 362 is supporting him for Bloomington mayor. For over a decade, our local unions worked with local officials to ...

The Sunday (March 9) opinion piece "We’re turning down free money by firing IRS workers" provided many historical ups and downs regarding IRS funding and manpower. The elephant in the room is that ...

Reading the newspaper's coverage of the two public discourses regarding conflicts posing as “freedom of speech” has left me feeling speechless at times. But two words keep surfacing in my mind ...

Did Shelburne really just vote for higher taxes? Really? Were Shelburne citizens all fully aware of what that meant? Have things actually improved every time property taxes increase? It stinks that ...

Recent articles by The Sentinel and the AP about Defense Department purges of so-called DEI images have brought us to absurdity. Included in the targeted images are references to a WWII Medal of ...

Thursday I received a letter from Rep. Brad Finstad in response to several calls I made to his Washington, D.C., office. While it was nice to hear that someone in his office made an effort to ...

It often gets exhausting dealing with many Trump supporters on the Hickory Daily Record website and other social media sites who end up coming across like trained parrots regurgitating the same ...

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