Opinion
Fall Color — Paint box for gardeners
Now that fall is around the corner, those of us fortunate enough to live in the Ohio Valley will soon be enjoying a show of brilliant fall color compa...
Our View
Ohio Issue 1 boils down to a question about crime and punishment, and what exactly is the purpose of our jails and prisons.It’s no secret the Un...
Take a walk on the weird side
As a devotee of YouTube — mostly for movies and TV shows I haven’t seen — I have discovered an entertaining category of videos deali...
The Mummy Man of Sabina
Recently, I heard a story about a small town’s peculiar claim to fame and it really interested me. I wanted to share it with those who have neve...
‘I will miss us when we are gone’
About a year ago I wrote a column about comedians Laurel and Hardy, and about their return to post-war England and Ireland in the early 1950s, in the ...
Placing local food on school lunch trays
Engaged communities and connections with farmers are helping make school lunches even better in rural communities. Across the country, kids are reapin...
Healthy friendships bring us strength
I think that our relationships with people around us build the most strength. I mostly enjoy the confluence between friends during friendship. What I ...
America 2018: Even more gilded than 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...
Cut the cord on archaic, broken TV rules
Families in America are “cutting the cord” from less desirable TV bundles in record numbers, capping a ten-year transformation in the way ...
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...
