Columns and Columnists

Mongaya: Sulpicio’s fate (Sun Star)

6 Jul 2008

I JOINED the cacophony of voices in my last column urging the owners of Sulpicio Lines to fold up and invest in other ventures aside from the business of floating coffins. The series of disasters through the decades, I believe, should be enough to convince them that the time has come to close the business in the interest of public safety.

Trump wonders why Corzine left the Senate (The Record)

6 Jul 2008

Now that Governor Corzine has all but formally declared plans to run for re-election next year, at least one celebrity wonders why he bothered running for governor in the first place.

George F. Will, elder statesman (The MetroWest Daily News)

6 Jul 2008

George F. Will, the conservative columnist and pundit, seems too young and young-looking to be anyone's "elder statesman." He is 67, his hair still boyishly parted, his face hardly lined, his wire-rimmed persona that of a graduate student whose idea of a vice is skipping class to catch a ball game at Wrigley Field.