Don't you love it when editorialists claim to appeal to "unadulterated logic and reason" and then base their arguments on incongruous premises arising from their own deluded conjecture? Such was the case with Tom Wilkinson's commentary on gay marriage (Opinion 2, Monday).

 “Overcoming Life’s Seven Common Tragedies: Opportunities for Discovering God” is a workshop led by Chris Benguhe 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley. Benguhe is an author, a columnist for the Catholic Sun and a former editor and writer for People magazine.

LOS ANGELES - TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike.

LOS ANGELES - Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.

NEW YORK - David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an attempt to reach a deal that will allow the "Late Show" to return to the air with its writing staff.

LOS ANGELES - Officials with the striking writers guild held informal talks Tuesday with Hollywood studios that could lead to the resumption of negotiations, a person familiar with the bargaining strategy said.

LOS ANGELES - Film and TV writers resolved to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike.

LOS ANGELES - The TV industry braced Tuesday for what could become a long strike by writers, even as both sides returned to the bargaining table.

LOS ANGELES - Television and movie screenwriters said Thursday they would go on strike for the first time in nearly 20 years in a dispute over royalties.

Big-time authors and bigtime fun are on tap at the ninth annual Arizona Book Festival. A few of this year’s notable writers scheduled to appear include Jodi Picoult, a New York Times best-selling fiction writer; Gail Carson Levine, a Newbery Honor-winning young adult author; and Stephenie Meyer, a sci-fi/ fantasy writer from Glendale.

LOS ANGELES - The writing teams for the new ABC medical show "Grey's Anatomy" and the NBC comedies "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" scored double nominations Tuesday from the Writers Guild of America.

Oct. 15, 2004

Finally some actual facts! That’s what I was hoping to find when I opened Rod Livdahl’s letter about the “tickle up effect”. Alas, it was not so. It was simply more “theory,” not supported by actual facts in an attempt to disparage President Reagan’s implementation of supply side economics. So I took one statistic, the unemployment rate, and did some research. These facts paint an interesting picture:

It’s a story that’s sad, but true and one of what might have been in the music world of the 1950s: It’s the story of the late great Johnny Ace.

Waterloo, Iowa -  A third of my hometown of Parkersburg, Iowa, was virtually gone with the wind on Sunday afternoon. Maybe you read about it or saw the reports on CNN or “The Today Show.” A tornado packing 205 mph winds, ground and shred everything in its path across most of a mile of the southern side of the town where I was reared.

Each year, approximately 1,000 members of the national and international media flock to Augusta, Ga., to cover the Masters.

Writer Steve Ball’s assertion (Aug. 17, 2012) that the Bush tax cuts actually increased federal revenue proves he is either delusional or a tea party member, or perhaps both.

Here is your chance to heckle the foolish fool that is me.

Here is your chance to heckle the foolish fool that is me.

In his letter attacking another writer, Edward F. Murphy fails to recognize that employers do not have to offer any insurance. My son works for a small business and receives no health care benefits at all. He would be happy to to have coverage that excludes blood transfusions or even to have insurance that covered nothing but broken bones.

Hunter Sanchez, a seventh-grader at Mesa Academy for Advanced Studies, will represent Arizona in the Patriot's Pen, a national youth-essay writing contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, after winning first-place at the district and state levels.