Opinion

There are lots of silly notions of the past that slowly fade away as we march ever onward together in a tide of progressiveness. Even our conservative members are less conservative than they once were.

We find a troubling comparison in today's new situation with an old Mark Twain observation about weather, wherein everybody complains, but nobody does anything about it.

You know the game is important if we're willing to get up at 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday to watch it and government temporarily wiggles laws to allow bars to open really, really early to accommodate the fans.

For fans of the Olympics, Rio 2016 seems far away, but the time will fly. The same holds true for Estevan 2016. With the closing of the 2014 Winter Games in Prince Albert on Saturday, Estevan now carries the torch as the next Saskatchewan Games host.

After a year that included a number of train derailments, along with a particularly scary incident in Lac Megantic, Que.

It has been said more than once, including in this space over the years, that government decisions influence agricultural commodity prices at least as much as weather patterns and crop yields.

We all enjoy the feeling of being in control, the feeling that whatever is happening to us or is going to happen to us will do so because of choices and actions that we make.

It's easy to spot Weyburn's Graham DeLaet on a PGA Tour golf course.

Last weekend, as I sat at my computer working, I found myself taking a short break and perusing Facebook.

It was a piece of paper that normally wouldn't have captured my attention, except for the one detail that didn't escape notice. It was a letter inviting entrants to a concerto competition.