Writing a newspaper column is both a privilege and a burden. It seems easy at first, but as one reader advised me: “Writing a newspaper column is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It’s only fun ...

This column isn’t about vehicle and traffic law or even traffic safety. It’s about the 1,000 weekly column I have written over the past 19-plus years. What began as a one-year commitment to the ...

I wrote my first newspaper column when I was 14 years old. One of my hometown’s two weekly newspapers – The Enterprise, not the Gooding County Leader – published my musings on everything from JV ...

Becoming a regular columnist at a prestigious newspaper is one of the cushiest and most coveted jobs in journalism. Strangely, almost every newspaper columnist sucks. Maybe the problem is the entire ...

George F. Will has been an opinion columnist for so long that he makes the job look effortless, but early on he wondered how he’d ever find enough material to fill two columns a week. So, as Jonah ...

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 ...