I started writing a news column for The Palm Beach Post in December of 1991, providing daily commentary about the WIlliam Kennedy Smith trial in West Palm Beach. The first day I did a poor Jimmy ...

Let me give you the inside scoop on writing this newspaper column. In September 2008 I e-mailed Tiffany Kjos, the Foothills Star editor, about my interest in writing a monthly column. She called me ...

Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

This is a night in the life of one Brown Daily Herald opinion columnist. I’ve gone through this process 30 times (though I ...

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...