Editor’s Column: News, or melodrama?

Between the fires in the western half of the U.S. that have clogged the atmosphere with smoke, the hurricanes

flooding the southern states, and word that North Korea has amped up its nuclear weapons tests and has America in a bullseye, it’s starting to feel like a particularly sketchy season of “American Horror Story.”
I made the foolish decision of checking my phone when I woke up on Sunday.
Note to self: Do…