∎ Don’t write columns about rats coming out of toilet bowls for readers, who in big numbers, are reading your column on the john. Ed Lowe, the longtime columnist for Newsday on Long Island, told me ...

Let me give you the inside scoop on writing this newspaper column. In September 2008 I e-mailed Tiffany Kjos, the Foothills Star editor, about my interest in writing a monthly column. She called me ...