I have gotten used to receiving puzzled looks from acquaintances after telling them I’m a conservative. Those looks are usually followed with the question, “Oh, so you like President Bush?”The questions...

For college students, our use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are merely extensions of our social lives. However, social networking has taken on a new meaning in how the world responds to crisis situations....

Snow is a vicious cycle in Kent.Sometime during November or December, the first snow falls. It continues sporadically through the end of the year, and, by the time students return for the spring semester,...

You can bet that political strategists in both parties will be parsing the meaning of the Massachusetts senatorial struggle for some time to come. If there was a slam dunk left in American politics, it...

 The flush of the toilet down the hall lifted the weight of sleep off my mind and my eyes slowly came to the present. My friend walked into the living room where I spent the night comfortably asleep on...

 The people of Haiti are not strangers to misfortune, but a tragedy demanded international attention to their suffering. A devastating earthquake rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, killing tens of thousands near...

Finally, another decade over and done with. It was the turn of the millennium, a point in time that for the rest of history, people will look back at and compare with whatever future civilization they...

It’s been just over a week since an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti, devastating the country.A week later, the news coming out of Haiti remains disturbing. CNN reported last week that...

If you are born in Tremedal, you probably won’t ever leave.It takes 45 minutes to drive there on coiled mountain roads from Agua Caliente, El Salvador. Google Maps hasn’t labeled Tremedal on its satellite...

Spring semester can be kind of a bummer. For starters, calling it “spring” is a pretty big joke when for the bulk of the semester Kent seems to be under a heavy, ugly blanket of snow. And you can hardly...

It’s been less than a year and a half since Haiti was ravaged by four devastating storms: Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, back-to-back-to-back-to-back. The images beamed from the scene were searing. Bodies...

It was the season to be jolly, a time for family and friends, to reflect the year past and plan the year ahead, to make resolutions and to break them. I hope this column finds you in good cheer — or...