The dark side of hosting the Olympics
This summer, Los Angeles officials reached a deal with the International Olympic Committee to host the 2028 Olympic Summer Games.For its trouble, the city...
A parent’s familiar dread, after Las Vegas mass shooting
You scan the faces of the other parents at drop-off.You check for knowledge. For fear. For grief.Every one of your parental instincts tells you...
Remembering Sara Galloway
XENIA — Born in Xenia, Sara Galloway spent the greater part of her life in that city. A graduate of the Cincinnati College of...
First football game played in Xenia
Football in America started as early as 1869, but was not the game which is played today. Over the years, many changes have taken...
As a longtime gun owner, I wonder what to say
What do we say now?What do we do now?What do I, a longtime gun owner, say now?The deadly barrage unleashed from above at one...
Our health care system is a corporate care system
Rather than a health care system, our country’s leaders have kept us shackled to a “corporate care” system.This allows insurance giants, drug company gougers,...
So black athletes have forgotten their place?
Dear black people: I guess we’ve messed up again. Seems like we’re never going to learn how to properly protest, no matter how hard...
‘Thoughts and prayers’ for Las Vegas victims not enough
There is, by now, a grim routine to all of this.That’s how frequently it happens, how unremarkable it has become in America for some...
Less Twitter, more teleprompter
As I watched various journalists, police, psychiatrists and other smart people on cable TV try to make sense of the senseless mass shooting in...
Compassion for middle class will be tested with tax bill
Tax cuts are the political equivalent of truth serum.A typical politician can often get away with spinning wildly about economic growth, the budget deficit...
