May 2025

  • DISCUSSING THE UNDISCUSSED

    On April 14th, Bob Confer wrote an article for The Wellsville Sun titled “The Deadly Stress of Farming: New York farmers are committing suicide at alarming rates, help is available.” His piece has haunted me since reading it. I am… Continue reading

  • THE JIMPLECUTE REPORT

    By Carl A. Ten Hoopen Carl A. Ten Hoopen is the political and business reporter for the Evoraberg Independent Washington: This afternoon President Trump will sign an Executive Order banning atmospheric disturbances on his birthday. In response to questions, White… Continue reading

  • BANNING HUMOR

    “Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter, nothing can… Continue reading

  • HEARTBREAK AND FEAR

    The irrational challenges our common humanity and goodwill daily. Fear overwhelms in the dark atmosphere of hate. We fall silent because words fail to express the depth of fear and grief that weighs on our hearts. On an evening intended… Continue reading

  • DAY OF DEFIANCE

    REPRINTED FROM THE EVORABERG INDEPENDENT A number of letters have come to the paper complaining bitterly about President Trump’s planned military parade. I have asked the Woodhull Journal to reprint Mrs. Eleanor Harrington Parker’s letter for its readership on this… Continue reading

  • THE FRIDAY JIMPLECUTE

    By Carl A. Ten Hoopen Carl A. Ten Hoopen is the political and business reporter for the Evoraberg Independent. Business News To be a successful business person is not an easy task, but it is perhaps decidedly easier when you… Continue reading

  • A PERPLEXING QUESTION

    Perhaps I have been asking the wrong question. Ben Azzi used to say: “Despise no man and consider nothing impossible for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is nothing that does not have its… Continue reading

  • A PERSONAL MESSAGE

    Sun Tzu, Sikong Shu, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde A little more than a week ago, I received an angry note telling me that I am a good writer who says nothing unless I am willing… Continue reading