Gary Dickson

You never know when or where a chance encounter will develop into a lasting friendship. In the spring of 2008 I was the publisher of the Lake County Record-Bee. I...

Since I was a child in school I have held the United States Constitution in reverence. At first, it was more due to the fact that my teachers spoke highly...

We have been told that the U.S. economic recovery from the Great Recession officially started in June of 2009. I don''t know about you, but for me and most of...

Last week I tackled writing about some of the more negative issues related to social networking, in particular how some individual''s posts and pictures on Facebook and other social networking...

I failed to get involved with community service and volunteerism until I was in my late 20s. That is when I first joined a service club, Optimist International. I don''t...

This is a red letter year regarding the aging of America''s population. The first members of the baby boomer generation are reaching the age of 65 in 2011. While this...

This is in response to Casey P. Nunes'' letter to the editor on Feb. 15, in which he wrote, "Mr. Dickson and Ms. Feder are to be commended for discontinuing...

How are you doing? Are you hanging in there during this busy time of the year or are you feeling totally frazzled by all of days of non-stop work, shopping,...

When it comes to U.S. history, the Holocaust seems more of a subset of the bigger picture that was World War II. At the end of the war American soldiers...