Columns

Wealth disparity in America

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

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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’

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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

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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...