Opinion
As a man thinketh in his heart
I had an interesting conversation with my dentist the other day. I was in for a root canal, and he had injected me with enough ...
W Gregory Ward, Author at Valley Times-News
Opinion
Maybe what we need is a new Billy Graham
As a college freshman I began waiting on Newseek magazine to come out so I could turn to the back and read George F. Will’s ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, July 1, 2020 6:43 am
Opinion
Do not take special moments for granted
I never really had a father, so Father’s Day always sneaks up on me. To celebrate it this year my three girls, one of my ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:23 am
Opinion
Take a deep breath and notice our world
If you watch the news—with all that’s going on, we seem drawn to it like a moth to a flame—you would think the world is ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:54 am
Opinion
Ramifications of defunding police
As I’m writing this, there is a hue and cry (a term I chose carefully) all across America for us to defund the police. Some ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, June 10, 2020 8:18 am
Opinion
Protests should end, but conversation continue
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died in Powdertown, a relatively unknown community south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, after an encounter with the local police. ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:49 am
Opinion
Class of 2020 has a lot of history left to live through
The high school class of 2020 went through an odd year. That set me thinking about my grandmother and the times she lived through. We ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:45 am
Opinion
The graduation speech I didn’t give
Does it shock you as much as it shocks me that the class of 2020 is about to march down the aisle and no one ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 6:33 am
Editorials
Venturing out after COVID-19 hibernation
I don’t know what y’all did this weekend, but with the governor telling us that we can leave our houses, I decided to get out ...
by W Gregory Ward, Wednesday, May 13, 2020 7:20 am
Opinion
Job and the Chinese farmer
Maybe it’s time we wrapped our heads around this pandemic from a different perspective. When I was a boy roaming the halls of Huguley Elementary ...