The real truth is that most editors or columnists really don't know much more about the affairs of the day than anyone else. About the only difference is that we get paid to say something. Some writers get a real intellectual complex at times. If I ever detect such a feeling coming on, I begin to think how I would go about balancing the national budget, and I can assure you that brings me down to earth in a real hurry. By the time you read this, the president will have made his State of the Nation address, and I certainly hope that he and the Congress have a better idea of what to do about the deficit than I do.
Pickles get a whole week.
More and more it appears that the necessary steps are being taken to get the Holbrook Hospital open again, and that is indeed good news for the entire area. Certainly we need to have the hospital back in business. It is important in a large variety of ways in the area. One thing that would help right now is for anyone who may owe the hospital any money to try to make some arrangements to get it paid. No business can operate on accounts receivables.