Dear Rusty: The time is nearing that I want to move from my current Social Security survivor benefit to my own SS retirement benefit at 70 years of age. I have been looking more deeply into the application of Delayed Retirement Credits (DRCs), and I have read that DRCs accumulated in the year that I...

We have experienced a return to common sense in America, and it couldn’t make me prouder. President Donald Trump has been the key to this return, and I will give credit where credit is due. But let me also say upfront that I am not here to tell you Donald Trump is a perfect man. He is not. There are...

The flowers are exploding with sight and scent in my backyard garden. That, my friends, is my passion and my peaceful respite. In fact, you could say that I am a flower fanatic, a plant connoisseur, and a garden guru. My husband, who is not allowed to have a lawnmower or a weed eater in the garden v...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial was originally published November 6, 2024.) Elon Musk is very interesting and inspiring to me. He strikes me a...

After several months of mayhem in our house, things began to quiet down. It was beginning to get back to our normal way of life. I noticed there were ...

To many in the newspaper industry, there is a perceived battle raging between newspapers and social media. From my standpoint, it’s not so much of a b...