By Bob Gaydos
A president of the United States of America orchestrated a failed coup attempt. I still can’t wrap my head around that.

By Bob Gaydos
It’s not just drugs and alcohol. One in 10 female teens may have an eating disorder. A smaller percentage of teen boys, perhaps athletes such as wrestlers or runners, also have issues that revolve around body weight and image.

By Bob Gaydos
It has been said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. Well then, screaming about the need for changes in gun laws and repeatedly voting for people obviously opposed to them — paid to oppose them — is a form of insanity.

By Bob Gaydos
I made a pledge a few years ago to honor John F. Kennedy, not on the date he died, but on the date he was born, May 29, a date I share with him. Here’s to hope.

By Bob Gaydos
It’s not unthinkable that a teenager whose social life revolves around alcohol has asked himself or herself if, just maybe, drinking is becoming a problem.

By Bob Gaydos
Two men with ties to Orange County, N.Y., made historic headlines in the same week recently. Neither was something to celebrate.

By Bob Gaydos
Firing squads in South Carolina, “mercy” deaths in Ohio, a movie set shooting in New Mexico and two brave politicians. Our world.

By Bob Gaydos
Despite a landmark moment, there was yet another sign that the people running the game have lost all sense of what once made baseball America’s pastime. Kissing off a possible perfect game is … not baseball.

By Bob Gaydos
Yes, I’m talking about Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, “The Servant of the People.” The Ukrainian TV show’s first season is streaming on Netflix. Fascinating.

By Bob Gaydos
All the news in 500 words or less. More or less.