Opinion
Letters to the editor
Important renewal leviesEditor:I write this letter in support of the Greene Memorial Hospital levy, Issue 5, a renewal with no new taxes, to be on the...
America 2018: Even more gilded than America 1918
It took 100 years, but America has returned to its unequal past. With a vengeance.The year many consider the height of the Gilded Age, when John D. Ro...
Stealing the vote
The GOP isn’t out to “win” elections anymore. They’re just trying to make sure anyone who might vote against them can’t....
Lie and deny
It is difficult to keep my head from exploding with each new day’s political developments. So now Rod Rosenstein is quitting or may be fired, le...
Remembering Tom Taggart
XENIA — Born in Ireland in 1856, Tom Taggart came with his family to Xenia when he was five. As a young man his first job was sweeping floors in...
The history of the grand hotel
A couple of weeks ago, I shared the story of Merrick’s Hotel, also known as the Ewing House, which closed when stagecoach travel ceased to be po...
It’s your post office: Keep it
Take it from a postal worker: If the U.S. sells its public mail service, consumers will lose big time.This summer, the White House proposed selling of...
Letter to the editor policy
The Xenia Daily Gazette and Fairborn Daily Herald encourages readers to write letters to the editor:Election lettersDeadline for Nov. 6 election lette...
Sausage Man and the belching smoke
The country singer and sausage king, Jimmy Dean, lived high above an expansive, picturesque section of the James River, on Chaffin’s Bluff in Va...
Fantastic news: God has no middle children
1 John 3:1a “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God …”God is not a God of favor...
