Chicago’s taxpayer-funded ode to robber barons
The Park Service is sponsoring a national monument on the site of an autocratic old company town.History, as the old adage goes, is written...
The only game in town
The stock market is as crooked as the dice game in Guys and Dolls.The stock market is down. It must be some crazy thing...
Answering constructive criticism
It seems to me that one of the “side effects” of writing an opinion column such as this is that readers occasionally offer what...
Remembering Agnes O’Bryant
JAMESTOWN - She was named Greene County Mother of the Year in 1988. She lived in Jamestown where she raised 11 children and was...
The Singing Smth sisters
It has been quite a few years since the Smith Sisters sang at the Jamestown Opera House, but if you were to visit the...
We can — and should — do more to help syrian refugees
If tiny Lebanon can receive over 1 million, surely the wealthiest country in the world can follow suit.Imagine that 58 million Americans were streaming...
Chicken Disneyland
McDonald’s is slowly transitioning to cage-free eggs, but that’s only a slightly better deal for the chickens.McDonald’s made headlines recently by announcing it will...
Health care isn’t a bargaining chip
Women should be free to make their own health decisions no matter what they earn or where they live.Conservatives and progressives don’t agree on...
Make your judicial vote count
As the voting patterns were analyzed after the Nov. 6, 2012 general election, one thing became clear: a lot of Cuyahoga County voters who...
White supremacy is alive and all too well
Our system amounts to affirmative action for white people.A New York Times obituary for Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who passed away this...
