The "And from Bill..." Archive

Gun control. In this Archive, been there, done that multiple times.

Without shame or hesitation I offer to you another example of my passions about the issue, this time in the form of my reaction...

Twenty-three years ago our nation was shocked and divided when a Los Angeles jury found police officers not guilty of charges related to the beating endured by a man named Rodney King. The beating,...

A region-sponsored youth event back in 1989 prompted today’s Archive entry.

When I read these words today I still react with empathy for the boy described. I wonder how his form of shyness...

When I wrote this column seventeen years ago, I think school shootings and other senseless violence weren’t quite as anticipated by use Americans as they are today; I think we were probably...

On Sunday our nation observed the twentieth anniversary of the domestic terrorist bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. It was two weeks after that bombing that I wrote today’s...