Saving America’s great places
I’m writing this from Yellowstone National Park. Established in 1872, this was our first National Park. The world’s first, in fact.In an interesting window...
Using lunch to punish the poor
One of the lucky things about being rich is that you automatically become handsome, your jokes are hilarious, and politicians treat you with fawning...
Harvard study: Media has been largely negative on Trump
Whenever I mention that the news media leans ridiculously far to the left, that it has lost half the country with its attitude and...
Increasingly isolated Trump is president without a party
Entire journalism school courses can be constructed around the knotty question of how to cover Donald Trump’s tweets.There is a case that these 140-character...
Money talks: We need to talk louder
In today’s polarized political climate, it seems like there’s no issue that people can agree on — except for maybe one.Democrats and Republicans, liberals...
Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe
One of my favorite folk legends is about Paul Bunyan. He is known from coast to coast as a gigantic woodsman who could chop...
Remembering Christel Lott
XENIA — Christel Lott was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Greene County Historical Society. One of her...
Putting Old Glory in her place
A number of years ago, we moved into a retirement community in Central Ohio before we learned we weren’t ready to be retired …...
Venezuela needs a helping hand, not a hammer blow
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The United States has a big hammer: the military, plus the intelligence community’s covert...
What we can learn from war memorials
In Dryden, New York, a proposed solar farm recently caused a stir.Thousands of solar panels — enough to power 7,500 homes — are scheduled...
