By Bob Gaydos
When three major stories — sports, politics, foreign intrigue— vie for front page treatment, what’s an editor to do?

By Bob Gaydos
Occasionally, it’s good to look around at life and discover some amazing things, about watermelon, numbers and horses, for instance. Be present.

By Bob Gaydos
While Donald Trump kept complaining that authorities were trying to shut him up, as if that were possible, police authorities in Kansas actually shut a newspaper down, briefly. The First Amendment was in the news.

By Bob Gaydos
It was a week in which Donald Trump got indicted again, Mike Pence found his voice, NASA found Voyager, which it had lost in space, a Yankee pitcher lost his cool in the clubhouse and got sent to rehab and Sen. Tommy Tuberville lost a political skirmish when Joe Biden vetoed a bid to move Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama. By the way, that’s three indictments for Trump and counting.

By Bob Gaydos
A candid look at today’s Republican candidates based on a candid look at the field 12 years ago. A salute to my late colleague and lifelong Republican, Barbara Bedell. Spoiler: She didn’t even like Romney.

By Bob Gaydos
In a world of TikTok and streaming consciousness, there is still room for symmetry, especially in baseball and music.

By Bob Gaydos
Aretha Franklin’s scribbled will was ruled valid, aspertame was declared possibly cancer-causing but safe, actors joined writers on the picket line for more money and less AI and India figured, what the heck, let’s send a rocket to the moon. The week that was.

By Bob Gaydos
Recent balloon sightings and public comments by a high-level intelligence officer that the government has had a long-standing secret program of crash retrieval of unidentified spacecraft of “non-human origin,” have given sudden urgency and immediacy to Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate post. And she’s taking it seriously.

By Bob Gaydos
Republicans confuse “free speech” with the right to say anything they feel like, without regard to the truth and certainly without regard to the repercussions of the lack of truth in their statements.

By Bob Gaydos
Stream of consciousness reporting while waiting for an indictment, arrest, conviction or imprisonment of you know who.