by Chris Maza | Mar 3, 2025 | Chris Maza, Opinion
Of course, the responsibilities we all have to our family, friends, community, and our work will always take a place of precedence in our lives. However, those should not always trump the responsibility to ourselves and our own well-being.
by Chris Maza | Feb 14, 2025 | Chris Maza, Opinion
Food, housing (both cost and inventory) and heating costs are among basic living expenses putting a squeeze on middle class families. Meanwhile, school districts and departments are threatening significant reductions and funding for roads has remained stagnant while inflation has not.
by Chris Maza | Feb 2, 2025 | Chris Maza, Opinion
This is all a very longwinded way of introducing myself as the new executive editor for Reminder Publishing. It’s hard to explain what I plan to do without first explaining where I’ve been. I suppose a much simpler way to put it is I’m a news man and I always have been, whether I knew it or not.
by Chris Maza | Apr 24, 2023 | Chris Maza, Opinion
As I write this column, my family and I are in the final days of preparation for our trip to Walt Disney World. In the interest of full disclosure, we are “those people” – a Disney family. My wife and I celebrated our honeymoon, fifth and 10th anniversaries at the...
by Chris Maza | Jan 25, 2023 | Chris Maza, Opinion
By now we’ve all seen the Saturday Night Live bit. We’ve seen the national news article shared on social media forums for the 100th time. We know – the lights at Minnechaug Regional High School won’t turn off. Many of our faithful and passionate readers have already...
by Chris Maza | Nov 7, 2022 | Chris Maza, Opinion
A few years ago, there was a brief period of time during which I left journalism as a full-time vocation. While I still dabbled in freelance, the economic landscape was untennable for a soon-to-be first-time father with a mortgage and other “adult” responsibilities....