The tax plan moms need
During his speech announcing that the U.S. is ditching the Paris climate accords, President Trump took a strange detour to declare “our tax bill...
Dangling participles, misplaced modifiers, and split infinitives
It seems to me that today’s society is kinda giving what we used to know as “grammar” quite a battering. In fact, I’m not...
Companies can either make things or make CEOs rich
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric since 2001, is retiring. The 61-year-old will be making a well-compensated exit.Fortune magazine estimates that Immelt will...
Setting the right priorities
Get Trump at any cost! That is the biggest Washington, D.C. game now. Right or wrong, the “in-crowd” which includes both Democrats and Republicans,...
Remembering Jacob Gerlaugh
XENIA — Jacob Gerlaugh’s grandfather and father, Adam Gerlaugh Sr. and Jr. Came to Greene County in 1807 and then he was born in...
A glimpse into the gravel pit
Greene County has a considerable amount of limestone beneath the soil. It has been said that some of the best limestone comes from this...
African-American women’s message for DNC: Remember us?
We crave the hard-to-get while ignoring the one who has stuck with us through thick and thin. In a letter to the DNC chair,...
Congress needs to reassert its use of force
The Trump Administration, like its predecessors, has shown an apparent appetite for the use of force overseas. The “mother of all bombs” dropped on...
Trump’s twitter bombs
Donald Trump missed his opportunity to become a General Patton-style military commander and glorious war hero back in the Vietnam era. He surely would’ve...
Mad about the climate? Don’t cheer up!
On June 1, President Trump announced that he’ll withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. If that makes you mad, good. If...
