Dear Heloise: Calling 811 before you dig a hole for a bush is a waste of the investigator's time and a needless expense. Now if you're planting a tree with a substantial-sized root ball (with perhaps ...

Comments written quickly after an article was published were more likely to contain hate and threats than those posted later.

In the 2010s, news publishers couldn’t shut their comment sections fast enough. The space “below the line” had become a noisy, thankless place to spend your time, where bile and bad-faith arguments ...

A Sept. 5 letter asking, "Who will help the poor if the state doesn't?" stirred a conversation among our readers. One reader called and wanted The Chronicle to clarify that the change that will go ...

Back in my Maxboxing days, my weekly column always included a mini-mailbag section, under the subheading “I’m Raskin, You’re Askin’.” Some two decades down the road, I’m still Raskin, but nobody is ...