Jim Bailey

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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?

2 months ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

Time was, when I slipped on the ice or lost my balance and tumbled to the ground, I’d hop back to my feet, dust myself off and get back to whatever I was doing — maybe being a little more careful. Even finely tuned athletes do this routinely. You can watch a football or basketball game on TV and see bodies go flying to the ground or floor. Most of the time they scramble back up and get back to the play quickly.

2 months ago | heraldbulletin.com | Jim Bailey

For the first time in 226 years, a sitting president of the United States has a felony conviction on his record. I suppose, however, that whether or not that amounts to a hill of beans depends on whether you are a MAGA fan or a Trump-hater. Donald J. Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts last year in New York, as a result of hush money payments over alleged sexual misconduct many years ago.