The Montgomery County Sentinel recently celebrated its 165th birthday. Our family has owned this community newspaper for 57 years. It is my privilege and honor to be its current publisher. Nowadays, i…
Editor’s Notebook
Not your average President
By Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem I almost laughed. Okay I did laugh. I got a call from a friend who asked me if I was in the middle of the rugby scrum involving President Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Sc…
Analysis: Trump on the South Lawn
The news analysts and pundits took us to the races this weekend after a question I asked President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House actually got answered. The pundits, of whom I admit…
On the National Day of Mourning
The National day of mourning opened up gray, overcast and cold in the Nation’s Capital. There was a hint of snow in the air as the nation laid to rest George Herbert Walker Bush, our 41st president. E…
“Individual 1” -The Opening Act in the Great Trump Stage Show
He is “Individual 1.” You know him as Donald J. Trump – our 45th president – and the legal noose around his neck appears to be constricting while his political fate seems very much up in the air. This…
U.S. policy on immigration lacks empathy and imagination
The dictionary tells us the difference between empathy and sympathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another by intellectually identifying oneself in another versus the feelings …
Nothing wrong with team play
The best people I’ve ever worked with in the big world of politics and business played a team sport – and usually it is football. I say this understanding my bias as I played and coached the sport. Bu…
The president and the press – what’s next?
Somewhere in the bowels of the White House an underpaid staff attorney is toiling away for an administration that struggles daily to produce the same product as human bowels do.…
In defense of Free Speech
The founding precept of the First Amendment is the idea that I may disagree with what you say, but defend to death your right to say it. That being said, there are many who purport to be supporters of…
Where do we go from here?
Republicans are jeering, the Democrats are cheering while some are searing over the recently concluded midterm elections. I’m leering at the results and looking at a bunch of angry people. No one is a…