Jim Bailey

1 week ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

At last count 15 people in the world have a net worth of more than $100 billion. And it’s probably safe to say they have considerably more net worth than they have friends and avid supporters. After all, they have it, we want it. But most of us are unwilling or unable to take the steps to reach that level of immense wealth that these titans of business and industry have practiced all their lives.

3 weeks ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

Easter arrives Sunday. The occasion often involves church attendance, Easter egg hunts, family dinners, parades and fancy attire. This time, due to the complexity of the formula that ties Easter to the paschal full moon, the day comes a full two weeks after a certain Easter Sunday in 1969. kAm#2496=[ @FC 7:CDE 49:=5[ H2D 3@C? pAC:= e E92E J62C] %9:D J62C H2D @?6 @7 E96 76H E:>6D E96 52E6 92D 72==6? @? 2 $F?52J] p?5 x 5@?’E C642== :E 4@:?4:5:?8 H:E9 t2DE6C 282:?

1 month ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

We didn’t have television when I was a youngster. I was entering high school before we got our first TV set. But we didn’t lack for entertainment. I loved that old table model radio with an aerial wire that brought in a selection of AM stations, including local station KYSM in Mankato, Minn, along with WCCO in Minneapolis and St. Paul and other stations. Programs were far more entertaining than anything you see nowadays on those fancy flat screens.

1 month ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

These days it seems as though every time a member of the law enforcement profession fires a weapon or engages in high-speed pursuit, it is accompanied by howls of protest from someone in the community at large. As the saying goes, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they hesitate, they risk their own life. If they act too quickly, it may cost the life of a presumably innocent civilian. Jim Bailey's column appears on Thursday.

2 months ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

Much ruffling of feathers has accompanied President Trump’s executive order declaring that what we have always known as the Gulf of Mexico should hereafter be titled Gulf of America. Google Maps apparently has gone along with this, although the president of Mexico has threatened to sue over the matter. kAmxE 3C:?8D E@ >:?5 E96 @=5 u@FC {25D D@?8 7C@> E96 `hd_Di “xDE2?3F= H2D r@?DE2?E:?@A=6[ ?@H :E’D xDE2?3F=[ ?@E r@?DE2?E:?@A=6]”k^AmkAm%96 =JC:4D 6G6? A@:?E @FE E92E “tG6?