Bob Neal: The Countryman: ‘Tis the season for hope, maybe?

In these first three days of winter, we've added just a minute between sunrise and sunset, but we've added. Hope glimmers in every bleak mid-winter, even if faintly.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Police, in the community or of it

Over the years, this military approach to police work starts to attract not the Norm Carons of the world but the cop who screams at a lost old man, the sergeant who pumps up his crew with stark warnings. In, but not of, the community.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Even when he’s right …

Donald Trump is undoubtedly the most damaged person ever to be president. Not to mention the most damaging. To our health. To our state of mind. To our very democracy.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The Will Rogers curse

The population bomb bombs

The optics of giddiness

The college dilemma: vocational or liberal arts?

Seeing the whole picture

A tragedy of errors on the wall

Mixing up everything — and everybody