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Randy Travis is a country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor who, since 1985, has recorded 20 studio albums, charted more than 50 singles...
“Scoundrel” is a powerfully written, thoroughly researched true story of how Edgar Smith, while on New Jersey’s death row for the murder of...
(Ed note: Joel Freedman read and reviewed this book before Pete Rose’s death Sept. 30.) When 19-year-old Pete Rose, aka Charlie Hustle, arrived in...
First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit Christian organization, represented Joe Kennedy in his legal battle against the school board of Bremerton, Wash.,...
Award-winning journalist Steven Hale was the leading reporter on the execution of seven Tennessee inmates after that state, in 2018 — following 10...
I am disappointed that during this election season, no candidate — neither Democrat nor Republican — is addressing the need for nursing home...
When former President Donald Trump holds a rally, he usually does not use charts to illustrate his message. But at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on...
In 1925, Dayton, Tenn., high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited public schools from teaching “any...
I recently sent Sen. Pam Helming a copy of pages 21-23 of the April 2024 Humane Society of the United States Horrible Hundred report, which describes...
“1776” is a highly readable account, based on David McCullough’s research in both American and British archives of the year 1776 during the...
Georg Elser was a 36-year-old cabinetmaker from Württemberg who hated bullies and who had a profound sense of justice. When Adolf Hitler came on the...
In 1998, constitutional lawyer and nationally syndicated broadcaster Mark R. Levin and his family adopted a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel...
I recently read “Smoke But No Fire: Convicting The Innocent Of Crimes That Never Happened” by Jessica S. Henry, who was a public defender for 10...
Daniel James Brown’s “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” is about tough challenges faced by Japanese...
In the spring of 2011, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz received a phone call from an animal control officer. During an investigation, she...
The Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, in response to a significant outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms in Canandaigua Lake last...
As in her book “Dead Man Walking,” “The Death of Innocents” is Sister Helen Prejean’s account of accompanying two condemned death row...
Who could have predicted that when Nikki Haley’s parents met the challenges of immigrating from India to the United States that one of their...
In her introduction to Samantha Glen’s “Best Friends: The True Story of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary,” Mary Tyler Moore wrote,...
In considering the overall good quality of history courses at two-year and upper-level colleges in the State University of New York system, I would...
By the end of his fourth day as a plebe at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa., Wes Moore had run away four times. Sgt. Austin, Moore’s...
When students at a high school Participation In Government class were asked to invite outside speakers to discuss controversial issues, I accepted the...
In his highly readable and spellbinding memoir, Jim McCloskey describes his first assignment as a chaplain at New Jersey’s Trenton State Prison,...
When Eddie Jaku was an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, he suffered from the effects of beatings, slave labor, malnutrition, freezing weather...
“King: A Life” is a highly readable and engrossing account of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and of the moral and spiritual...
I agree with John Murtari and a previous Finger Lakes Times column of his that schoolchildren need to be protected from harmful transgender policies....
Jim Mandelaro’s story “Bobby Greco: A Passion for the Game” looks at the life of Geneva resident Bobby Greco, who was born with a rare...
Four days before Christmas 1943, the lives of two pilots — one American, the other German — would be changed forever during a brief encounter in...
By the end of November 1941, military decoding experts in the U.S. had broken Japan’s secret codes and intercepted communications that a Japanese...