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Columnist suggests woman takes time to find perspective

Dear Annie Annie Lane Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our early 60s, married for 40-plus years. We plan to retire and travel soon. But the past year or so he seemed to become obsessed with his smartphone, holding his phone all the time and guarding it. I asked him if he had a Facebook account and he said no. But when I entered his cell number in the Facebook login and a common password we use, it came up with “invalid password.” (It would have said “no account found” if he didn’t have one.) I told him I wanted to talk and asked him to be honest if he had a Facebook ...

Pluto was reclassified as a ‘dwarf planet’ two decades ago

Stargazers Dennis Mammana It was 20 years ago that our solar system lost a planet. Well, it didn’t really go anywhere, but Pluto is no longer a planet because it’s been reclassified. I’m sure you figured out in school that scientists love to classify things. Rocks, clouds, plants and, yes, even stars and planets. So why did they feel the need to reclassify Pluto? Because Pluto doesn’t seem to fit the pattern of the rest of the major worlds of our solar system. First, it’s a world not even 1,500 miles across; in other words, if we could bring it to Earth, it would fit ...

Stolen Picasso etching found in vacant apartment

MADISON, Wis. — Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever. But then police called last week and asked him to look an artwork that a local landlord found while cleaning out a vacant apartment. DeLind immediately recognized ...

Safety requires firms to have rules to follow

The August 2025 explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works didn’t happen because employees weren’t following the rules. It happened because there weren’t rules to follow. This week, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released its report on the tragedy that killed two employees — Timothy Quinn, 39, and Steven Menefee, 52 — and injured 11 others. A series of three explosions caused $52.5 million in damage to the facility. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied 10 violations and $118,000 in fines. The Chemical Safety and Hazard ...

GOP must shine light of freedom

How can anyone escape the irony that in this year, as we celebrate 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the principles of that declaration are being challenged? When Americans should be basking in the light of our hard-fought-for freedoms, standing guard on our God-given rights noted in that declaration, there are Americans ready to turn their back on them. Candidates advocating socialism, the antithesis of “all Men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” are winning elections. Michigan Democratic candidate for ...

Are mainstream Dems taking the wheel?

You couldn’t find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. “Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have made her up. Hong lost the Democratic primary but left behind some sobering thoughts. She finished second by only a hair and against a sterling Democrat with relevant experience. The winner, David Crowley, is the Milwaukee County executive and an African American born into poverty. Crowley will face off against ...