Editorial: Johnny Pesky’s spirit
It’s been a terrible year for the Red Sox.
A house-cleaning after last September’s epic collapse cleaned out the wrong people, leaving beer-and-chicken malcontents Josh Beckett and Jon Lester to dr…
Editorial: Have Syrians had enough of being afraid?
The fighting in and around Damascus intensifies as the Syrian people attempt to do what the rest of the world won’t in the face of evil: eradicate it from their midst.
The battle for the Syrian cap…
Editorial: Mitt Romney’s foreign fundraising
We’ll not make too much of Mitt Romney’s unfortunate remarks in London, the first stop of his European tour.
He didn’t say anything plenty of others weren’t saying, and it’s no badge of shame to be…
Editorial: Encourage voting
Republicans are racists and Democrats favor criminal acts such as voter fraud. At least that’s the impression you get when reading up on the pros and cons of requiring voters to show photo identifica…
Editorial: Playing chicken with the Constitution
It must be an election year, because the culture war is in full fury over a fast-food chicken franchise.
Recently, the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, Dan Cathy, expressed some opini…
Editorial: Keeping our promises to all generations
You wouldn’t know it from our political debates, but America’s alleged “entitlement crisis” was clear a half-century ago to anyone who bothered to look. The generation that survived the Great Depress…
New book features 180 ways to eat quinoa
GateHouse News ServiceA bag of quinoa sat lonely in our pantry for five years. I’d never gotten around to doing anything with it, mostly as I had no clue. Then came Susan Irby’s “Quinoa Cookbook,” 32…
Maine’s Hartstone Inn honors Julia Child
GateHouse News ServiceJulia Child would have turned 100 years old on Aug. 15. The author of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and star of PBS television’s “The French Chef” was recently honored a…
Do dogs belong at farmers markets?
Mary Geddes loves dogs. She loves fresh fruits and vegetables, too. But the woman from Springfield, Ill., is a little disturbed at farmers markets when she sees shoppers pet the occasional dog on a l…
Acura’s RDX is the Goldilocks crossover
GateHouse News Service Five days after getting into Acura’s mid-size, 5-passenger crossover SUV, it dawned on me. The RDX is not too big, not too small. It’s eager, but not aggressive. The ride is ne…