Scott Underwood

Aug 15, 2024 | heraldbulletin.com | Scott Underwood

ELWOOD — Former Elwood Mayor Merrill Taylor, who died Aug. 8 at the age of 84, is being remembered as "a true public servant."Taylor, a Democrat, served as Elwood's mayor 2004-2012 and was the first mayor of the city in 36 years elected to a second term. Citing his wife Lela's health problems, he declined to run for a third term.

Jul 12, 2024 | commercial-news.com | Scott Underwood

With good reason, many voters aren’t happy with major party options in the presidential election. Former President Donald Trump is bombastic, insensitive and untruthful. It’s hard, especially, to forget that he encouraged the Jan. 6 riot, then sat idly by for hours while it transpired. President Joe Biden is suffering from greatly diminished cognitive abilities. It’s hard to forget his embarrassing incoherence on the recent debate stage and in his ABC interview afterward.

Jul 3, 2024 | heraldbulletin.com | Scott Underwood

There’s no spinning this one. No excuses to be made. The world saw in the June 27 presidential debate what must have been obvious to Joe Biden’s cabinet and his campaign team for weeks, perhaps months. He’s not fit to be president. His thoughts are incoherent. His speech is wandering and difficult to understand. His very aura is weak and discouraging. Whether he’s electable has become (excuse the expression) highly debatable in the aftermath of his debate debacle. But that’s almost beside the point.

Jun 4, 2024 | heraldbulletin.com | Scott Underwood

In the early ‘90s when I was sports editor at The Herald Bulletin, I was invited to a meeting involving the newspaper’s upper management. I wasn’t used to being included in such high-level conferences, so I felt a little out of my depth. It didn’t help when the publisher, my boss’ boss, sat down in the chair next to me. Fifteen minutes into the meeting, as the advertising director was talking about something called ROP and something else called ROI, the publisher leaned toward me.

May 14, 2024 | heraldbulletin.com | Scott Underwood

How do you feel about The Herald Bulletin’s poll questions? We love them. They’re fun to create, and it’s interesting to see what respondents have to say. Although the results are by no means scientific, they take the temperature of an important portion of the community — our readers. Some of our polls pose important and controversial public policy questions. Others are really just for fun. The polls are often, though not always, related to the editorial published the same day.