Randy Blaser

Randy Blaser was a community journalist for nearly 30 years, including 22 years as an editor for Pioneer Press. He has won numerous journalism awards …

• Art of compromise is what’s needed now

  In the aftermath of last week’s election, I’ve been listening to my friends on the right and the left. They are saying the same thing, and that’s what worries me.

• Maybe Congress needs a ‘Bar Rescue’

  If someone told you that to be successful you had to change, could you do it? If you had to start working your tail off to make it, if you had to spend money to make money, or if you had to make hard choices like firing your best friend to make it, would you do it? The answer is obvious, isn’t it?

• Can either candidate get us out of this mess?

  As we gear up for Election Day, it seems we are on the brink of a great crisis, say, something such as the Civil War and the election is between Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce. Both are ineffective, offering no way forward to avoid the …Read More