http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/section/Columns jacksonnewspapers.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Sun, 19 May 2013 21:29:15 +0000 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219910/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:42:03 +0000 By Jeff Vrabel, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219910/1008/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219911/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:40:23 +0000 By Saelen Ghose, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219911/1008/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209990/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:37:06 By Diana Boggia, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209990/1008/OPINION I just received a phone call that my ex-husband’s mother died. My two daughters loved her and I know they will be upset, so I want to find the right words to help them through this. I also need to prepare them for their first funeral with someone they loved, and prepare them for the process of it all. They were traumatized at a previous funeral of a family member they didn’t even know, so I hate to think of what this might do to them.
The school counselor and I told the girls [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129957/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:36:48 By Tracy Beckerman, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129957/1008/OPINION It was a perfectly reasonable question. It was a Saturday afternoon. We had no plans. But having been married to this guy for 20 years, I knew this question wasn’t as innocent as it seemed. There was a hidden meaning. It was actually code for, “Do you want to see that new action movie with lots of special effects, a huge body count and bad guys with fake foreign accents?”
“What did you have in mind?” I asked innocently.
“The new [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129977/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:28:02 +0000 By Jared Olar, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129977/1008/OPINION We’ve seen those principles at work time and again — in the fabricated news that the Russian Communists published in Pravda, in the Soviet Potemkin villages, in the old claims of apartheid propagandists that South Africa was all but uninhabited prior to the arrival of European [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129978/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:21:03 By Amy Gehrt, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129978/1008/OPINION Once the ceremonial swearing-in was complete, Obama faced the nation to lay out an ambitious agenda that surprised many with its substance and subject matter. A host of issues were discussed — the economy, climate change, gay rights and immigration reform, among others — but if there was one overarching theme I took away [...]]]>