Wealth disparity in America
Fortune Magazine reported last month that according to new data from the Federal Reserve, the “Top 1 percent of U.S. households hold 15 times...
Troubling seasonal rumors
I have been studying up on frightening holiday rumors and found some surprises. There is apparently no evidence that any child has ever been...
Inmate who died, and lived again
Many years ago, a couple of days before Halloween, the weather was dull and sunless, and the wind blew my deputy sheriff’s uniform like...
Let’s salute health care workers
Sometime things go bump in the night and sometimes those things are us. When that happens, we’ve got one thing to say: “Thank you,...
My brain wasn’t ready for that
Big shocker: I just found out after doing some very basic research that I wasn’t as smart a young man as I once thought.Did...
A ‘cold war’ with an imperial China
China just celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. One has to be impressed with the accelerated growth of the Chinese...
A day spent with old friends
I spent yesterday with old friends.It used to be that I would follow the use of “old friends” with the disclaimer that they were...
Time keeps on slipping…
Time has a way of slipping away faster with each passing year, and sometimes with its passing comes the regret of words left unsaid....
‘The play is the thing’
There’s the ironic expression, “Break a leg!” offered as good-luck encouragement to a thespian before a theatrical performance, but the phrase may have had...
Farm belt hope and despair
The USDA’s Economic Research Services reports that there are 77,800 farms in Ohio, with 13,600,00 acres. That’s a lot to manage.According to the Centers...