Editorial by Maramis Choufani
Editorials · On a Personal Note
While my daughter and I were out food shopping the other day, as usual, we put each store receipt we received into our purse to go over at home to be sure everything matched up. Normally we mind-check as we go along to be sure something isn’t rung up as $16.95 when it[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
It’s possible that no one is really interested when someone loses a friend that no one in town even knows. And yet if our friend was very special to us, we might feel the desire to share certain moments we spent with that friend to show others some of the things that matter in[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
If you were drowning, no doubt you would prefer to be rescued by an experienced boatman, someone who had been trained in search and rescue — especially rescue — and even preferably someone who has been certified and licensed in the field of such search and rescue. And how nice if that particular licensed[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Some eggs are better than others, and they get graded as such. If one can get Grade A eggs, why would one settle for Grade B eggs (not as good, and maybe even not nearly as good)? Students also get graded, and what student — unless he or she has some weird off-the-wall[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
There are some words that evoke special sentiments in the genera population, and speech-writers like to use them as they can to keep their audience feeling tuned-in to the speaker. Obviously, if the one speaking uses enough of the “right” words, the audience will lean more in that direction; and if it happens to[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Last week was the week of killing Harambe the gorilla to save a little boy. This week was the week of no charges brought against the little boy’s mother for any kind of neglect or endangerment to her child. Apparently, it was just “one of those things.” Our attention is diverted for two[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
It isn’t easy to be a father. It’s even harder to be a father when you might be mentally challenged in some way, and don’t even know right from wrong. One would think that Right and Wrong are easy enough concepts to identify, and that all parents would come into their role as[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
When I was in school, I remember one teacher or another saying to the class at large, “If I let you do that, I have to let everyone do that.” The funny thing is that most of the time, there never was another student who asked for that same exception to the[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Conviction of ex-speaker sends New York politics into turmoil The above headline caught my eye because I lived in Albany, NY for a while years ago. The AP news story started out by saying, “The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York[…]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Today marks the 30th anniversary (April 26, 1986) of the Chernobyl nuclear power station meltdown disaster in Ukraine, SSR, perhaps the worst such nuclear disaster in history. Although 30 years may seem like a long time ago, the results of that event linger on. In fact, the outcome of that day will probably linger[…]
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