Today's Opinions

Stories about dying, going to heaven (or hell) and selling books about it has become a veritable cottage industry these days.

Two pastors, Don Piper and Steve Sjogren, both wrote about visions of heaven in their death or near-death experiences. Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven, (2004) was followed by Sjogren’s, The Day I Died (2006).

Conservative Republicans are always accusing liberal Democrats of waging class warfare when Democrats point out the wide and forever-growing income gap between the haves and have-nots. Conservatives generally don’t see pervasive poverty in America as a problem and seem unconcerned with the rich getting richer while the middle class and poor get poorer.

When everyone’s facing forward watching the action at center stage, some aspects of the performance go unnoticed.

When the governor arrives in town with businessmen from India and 250 new jobs to announce, it’s a lot like that. With all attention on the speaker’s platform, some things slip by. Here are a couple observations about two guests at the Uflex plant announcement April 13 in Elizabethtown.

Arriving early provided a few minutes to talk privately with Larry Hayes, the state economic development director.