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‘The time to be happy is now’

As we look at the words in our obituaries, we recall the people we talked to, sharing their love — sometimes fierce, sometimes stoic, sometimes gentle.

America is searching for the words to let every citizen know they can have it their way

by Dennis Sullivan

The first spoken words of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” are: Waake up! Wake up! Wake up! Up ya wake! Up ya wake! Up ya wake!

It’s a bugle call of consequence.

And the bugler is the morning radio-show host Mister Señor Love Daddy — at We Love Radio, 108FM “the last on your dial, but first in your hearts.”

The legitimate object of government

Local governments are the closest to the people they serve and therefore the most attuned to their needs.

Dark enough to see the stars

We’ve observed over decades at The Enterprise that it can sometimes take years to bring about meaningful change. But we commend those who are taking the steps to lay one brick at a time to build a better world.

We shouldn’t play Russian roulette with our water supply

After an asbestos-cement water main broke in Altamont this fall, no tests for asbestos were performed so the federal regulation is meaningless, since there is no way to know if it should be enforced.