Columns

Cutting the paid TV cord

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Recently, I was away from home for a week so I took that opportunity to actually use many of the services I’ve written about...

Industrial policy: Right or wrong

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What is “industrial policy”? The simple answer is: When a national government subsidizes certain industries that it believes are essential to the nation’s economic...

Marta and me and Piccolina

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I was walking down an old street in an old part of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Brightly colored wooden doors lined the streets....

Today’s society could take a lesson

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It was the kind of neighborhood where every kid should fortunate enough to spend part of their childhood. It was a different time, for...

A prayer for the school year

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Had I been able to foretell my future back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, there’s much that I would have had a...

Fashionable gripes about homecoming

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I would like to apologize to the girls who accompanied me to homecoming dances in high school.More accurately, I’d like to apologize to those...

New technology is a bear

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They call the impossibly complicated screen I am looking at a “dashboard,” which I do not find reassuring at all. It would be nice...

Age references mean more nowadays

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Surely there’s much as we age that reminds us of the rapidity of the years that have passed. For those who enjoy music, you’ve...

WCTU was formed in Hillsboro

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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was very active in Clinton and Highland counties. The WCTU was originally organized Dec. 23, 1873, in Hillsboro,...

Seeing Elvis live not meant to be

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“Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry we drifted apart?“Do the chairs in your parlor, Seem empty and bare?...