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4 days ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
Throughout my recent visit to the western part of the state, almost everyone I met had a storm story to tell. I didn't even need to ask. These conversations simply happened, as if the tellers needed to explain to the universe just how painful the experience was and that despite their often insurmountable difficulties, it didn't break them.
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6 days ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
Public schools often are the community hubs in our rural communities, serving as places of learning as well as connection and growth. Likewise, local businesses are often important pieces of what makes a rural community what it is, making relationships between the two not just beneficial, but essential.
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6 days ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
I'm fully convinced when reading comments sections to political articles, especially on Facebook, that a substantial number of supporters of this regime are coming from what "60 Minutes" called troll farms, AI and paid agitators. This president could not have done as much damage as he did to this country even if he was a Russian agent installed to do just that (for a good conspiracy theory, google "Krasnov"). Bobby Burns can be reached at [email protected] and 329-9572.
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1 week ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
Your recent article on the real cost of tariffs ("Your Consumer Health: Tariffs Come With One Certain Impact - Higher Prices," April 19) boils down to an unfortunate truth: Economic tools like tariffs don't always deliver what they promise. They often raise prices for American families and businesses while damaging America's standing as an economic powerhouse.
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1 week ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
What's wrong with this picture? It's apparent that the activist judges, Democrats and the media are acting in concert with regard to the deportation of illegal immigrants. Their rallying cry is "due process."Where was the due process for the 3 million deportations when Obama was president? Where were the protests when Clinton fired 400,000 federal workers?
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1 week ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
My best professional friend for over 50 years, Carlos, was born and raised in Argentina. He and his immediate family escaped Argentina in the 1960s during political instability. In the 1970s a ruthless military regime came to power. It attacked the universities. Many citizens were "disappeared," including many of Carlos' cousins. Carlos' family became a family of migrants, eventually going to Canada and Mexico.
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1 week ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
By Bobby Burns I have seen a number of news items lately about people who claim a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth or predicted by fetal blood tests that look at DNA. For the vast majority of cases, DNA will provide an accurate prediction of the newborn's gender. However, nature does occasionally make a mistake and it can result in a child with no clear gender - one who falls into the category called "intersex."
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1 week ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
In his 10 years as a presidential contender, Donald Trump has always benefited politically by attacking immigrants, winning support for his promises of a hardline border crackdown. Yet now that's he's actually doing it - and in such a cruel fashion - the president is, for the first time, getting poor marks from voters, with a YouGov poll finding that 50% of Americans disapprove of his handling of what has often been his most popular issue.
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2 weeks ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
Amid the boredom of a non-Christian pope's death and the media's obsession with the Signal messaging app, I found myself reading about Pearl Harbor this week. It seems that as hell rained down, Marines, sailors, firemen and civilians grabbed their guns and began firing wildly in the sky at the Japanese planes. And none of those pilots was given due process. Ann Coulter is a bestselling author, lawyer and political pundit.
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2 weeks ago | 
reflector.com | Bobby Burns
When executive producer Bill Owens resigned from "60 Minutes," he was not forced out by President Donald Trump - at least not directly. Rather, Owens bristled at increasing editorial oversight by CBS executives and those of its parent company, Paramount Global. His exit is a reminder of longstanding tensions between editorial and corporate interests in American journalism that have heightened in the Internet and Trump eras.
