April 23, 2026
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Readers Respond To U.S. Postal Service Column:

Readers responded to Steve Stajich’s Mirror column regarding the U.S. Postal Service, and were united in their support of sustaining it. Some saw letters and mail as a means of maintaining privacy. As Mirror reader […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

The Guns In Our Lives: Epilogue:

There’s theory and there’s fact. My last column attempted to focus on gun issues by way of the story of the prop gun purchased for service in a theater piece of mine currently being performed […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Op-Ed: Dissent Is ‘Politically Productive’:

James William Fulbright, a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975, was a politician who opposed Brown v. Board of Education, but supported formation of the United Nations and came to oppose U.S. […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Why The Knee-Joke Reaction… ?:

Last weekend I was idly cruising Facebook and felt prompted to post something, even though I don’t fully understand the urge to post so many private thoughts online. Even if something truly apocalyptic was happening, […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

‘Don’t Tase Me Bro, uh, I mean, Honey…’:

Last Sunday the venerable CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” did an informative report on a piece of hardware that, hopefully, most of us are only vaguely familiar with: The electric stun gun device known by […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

“And Leave The Driving To Us…”:

Years ago, the Greyhound bus people had a jingle that included the slug line, “And leave the driving to us!” They were selling the idea that traveling by bus had the advantage of one getting […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

What Do We Want Pro Sports to Do?:

One way to start a dialogue on the ironically delicate subject of what it is we want from professional sports might be to ask ourselves why we still have professional boxing. We sent Michael Vick […]