If you're wondering about the changes that come with updating your computer to Windows 11, here's a user-friendly breakdown. Windows 11 brings a different look and feel to your computer's interface.

I am on vacation this week but delighted to present a guest columnist, my friend who is an Independence resident and a fine writer. BY JUDY CARROLL Quite suddenly, it seems I might be considered old.

THE BLESSING The blessing! Did you miss it? Did you even know about the blessing? Or maybe you knew about the blessing but, somehow, didn’t believe Jesus? Whatever the reason or circumstance, there is a blessing that many professing Christians miss. John, author of the fourth gospel account of the life of Jesus, tells us about this blessing.

In the Bible we find the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan. The Samaritan finds a wounded man and provides personal care, transportation and financial support.

In my quest to eat healthier as an adult, I've encountered a lot of meat and dairy alternatives along with low-fat and sugar-free treat options that claim to be better choices. Many of these products are also marketed as organic. Like the almond milk I buy. I choose not to eat mass-produced animal products because of the unethical and inhumane conditions found in corporate farming. What I failed to realize was that the corporate atmosphere of processed food marketed as healthy is equally horrific.

Thirty years ago, I was in a garment factory, covering the visit of a Portuguese dignitary who was in the factory because it employed a large number of Portuguese immigrants. The dignitary approached a short, muscular man who worked in the plant and greeted him smilingly in Portuguese.

The Big Ten, the Pac-12 and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but 'Globalize the intifada' and 'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea' are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers.

I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Dear Annie: I’ve always disliked house parties. During the first ones I’d been invited to, I had to leave early due to the loud music, vulgar dancing and drunk classmates -- an environment that would only make me feel anxious, disgusted and sick.

Public parks belong to the public, right? A billionaire can’t cordon off an acre of Golden Gate Park for his private party. But can a poor person -- or anyone who claims they can’t afford a home -- take over public spaces where children play and families experience nature?