By Dr. Robert Saul, special to Statehouse Report  |  Truth-telling is an essential skill for personal life, for interpersonal social interactions, for community activities and for governmental decision-making.  

This obviously goes without saying, but I would argue that we are suffering from some of the recent ill effects of “less than truth-telling.”  

Before everyone starts pointing fingers at each other or at the other political party, let’s settle back and just be honest with each other.  Truth-telling can be hard at times (it has consequences) and listening to truth-telling can be hard at times (it can change our thoughts and actions). And it indeed takes a good deal of perseverance.  

Truth is not in the eye of the beholder.  Truth is a series of facts that often need to be proven or investigated.  Truth is not an opinion.  Truth is not a series of alternate facts because a series of alternate facts is a series of untruths. The search for truth can be frustrating but eventually leads to the correct way to live and to conduct oneself.