OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Boats on parade
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 9, 2020
“They might have split up or they might have capsized, They may have broke deep and took water. And all that remains is the faces and names, Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.” -Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” What’s better than a parade? Why, boats o...
OPINION: DNC spells hope for America’s future
JOEY FRANKLIN, Evergreen columnist
September 2, 2020
The high point of last week's Democratic National Convention was Joe Biden’s acceptance speech; he spoke passionately about unifying Americans amidst civil turbulence. “But while I will be a Democratic candidate, I will be an American president," he said at the convention. "I will work as hard...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Eye of the storm
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 1, 2020
“Life’s ill, sometimes life might kill.” - Vordul Mega, “Iron Galaxy” A fully-developed hurricane can release the energy of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes. That’s almost 700 Hiroshimas smacking down on the coast of Texas and Louisiana every 20 minutes. Hurricane Laura see...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Kellyanne Gone-away
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 27, 2020
Kellyanne Conway has quit. In an administration that cycled through cabinet members like Spinal Tap went through drummers, Trump’s senior counselor managed to keep her spot from 2016 onward. She lasted through Robert Mueller’s investigation, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing and countless...
OPINION: Satire: Meeting the lesser-known presidential candidates
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 26, 2020
It’s that time again, everybody. 2016 seems like it was yesterday in the collective American memory, but four years pass by almost immeasurably fast. It’s time, once again, to trudge to the polls, ballot in hand, and pick between two rich pedophiles to run the free world for the next term. What...
Letter from the Editor: ‘In moments of great stress’
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 17, 2020
When I was a kid, my dad had a saying that I only found out later he cribbed from George Costanza’s father: “Serenity now!” He’d pull this one out intermittently and in moments of great stress, when our car would fail on the highway, or my brother threw up in the back seat, or on ill-fated fishing...
One female and one male older than 80 years old died from COVID-19, which marks 12 deaths in the county. Eighteen individuals tested positive for COVID-19,...
