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SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Ron Bischof: Monsters due on Maple Street

“Maple Street, USA, late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children and the bell of an ice cream vendor. “At the sound of

David Hegg

David W. Hegg: Life in the blender

I once joked that I’d like to write a book entitled “Life in the Blender.” We get up earlier than we want to most days, and right away the schedule

Gary Horton: Light a candle of thanks in your life

Enough of politics. Let’s put politics away through this weekend – especially over Thanksgiving dinner, if we expect to keep our families intact and functional. No, those holiday dinner political

Joe Mathews: Throw off new media’s tyranny

As long as Silicon Valley and its futuristic technologies dominate our politics, we’re doomed to be stuck in the past. The big story of the poisonous 2016 elections was how

Steve Lunetta: Hair on fire absurdity

Can we all just settle down a bit? Frankly, this is bordering on the absurd. Liberals are running around in the streets with their hair on fire, going on news

Gary Horton: Don’t call it a mandate

Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. As of this writing, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 798,000 votes. Approximately 4 million votes remain to be counted, largely in blue

Jim de Bree

Jim de Bree: The increasing role of disruption

I recently attended an accounting conference in Las Vegas. I am sure to most readers this sounds like a boring subject. To the contrary, the conference was extremely enlightening –

Terri Lovell: Trump in for a fight

Nobody thought it was possible, but Donald Trump ripped the presidential election right out of Hillary Clinton’s hands on Tuesday night. Winning the states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina

Brian Baker: GOP elites get what they deserve

Well, the election’s over and now we know who’s the clear and indisputable loser: Clinton. The country has dodged a major bullet. But I’m more interested in considering what dynamic