This week, millions of Americans shop in a mad dash to beat the holiday finish line. The seasonal chaos will ring up billions on credit cards, as our stockings are once more stuffed to bursting. It's the most wonderful time of the year, to be sure. ...more

December 23, 2009

In a couple of recent letters to Highlands Today, local writers referred to the celebration of the birth of Christ as "the reason for the season." ...more

December 18, 2009

Once again, our Mrs. Harvey's White Fruitcake Haiku Contest prompted much reaction from readers, not all of it favorable. ...more

January 4, 2009

Jack Coughlin is a children's surgeon by day. But on Thursday nights, he enters the Roman Empire. ...more

October 15, 2008

Jack Coughlin is a children's surgeon by day. But on Thursday nights, he enters the Roman Empire. ...more

October 15, 2008

to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice. ...more

August 29, 2008

Newsmagazine "60 Minutes" ran a story the other night on a 23-year-old Army gunner on his second tour in Iraq who says he was ostracized, denied promotions and discriminated against because he refused to participate in a prayer circle with fellow soldiers. The name calling and physical threats got so bad he was assigned a bodyguard. ...more

May 31, 2008

Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto thought to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother, Remus. ...more

November 21, 2007

Geoff Kingberg, an Orthodox Jew who dons a yarmulke, was at the end of his day substitute teaching Wednesday when he picked up a student assignment on which someone had scrawled: 'Jews will die soon.' ...more

October 26, 2007