Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

In most newspapers, the news, entertainment, sports and features pages are where you get to see and understand what is going on in the world. The opinion page is where you get to consider how to ...

The newspapers in the school library hung from wooden newspaper sticks, slatted oak holders that kept the pages stiff and communal. Because of the vagaries of the mail, it was probably weeks after the ...

On the Epiphany, in many ways we complete the story of Christmas. This Christmas was a little different than years past, as both my wife and I had to work. My daughter came up that afternoon, so it ...

What should I write about? That’s a perpetual question, one I’ve found harder and harder to answer. I’m about to hit my 25th anniversary at the Times-Union. Not that this is a big deal. A few of my ...