The historic garbage on trash pick up
By Joan BaxterThe City of Xenia is changing the manner of garbage pickup for all residents. No longer will plastic bags be placed at...
Toad in the garden
By Sandra Sheridan2 Corinthians 1:8-9 “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia....
Putting free speech out to pasture
By Jim HightowerA small-town cartoonist in Iowa got the boot when he offended a Big Ag giant.Hard experience teaches that biotech companies, chemical corporations,...
America’s cosmic tax gap
By Sam PizzigatiThe federal government can now spot a bug in space — so why can’t they spot rich tax cheats here on the...
Our poverty myth
By Jill RichardsonThe illusion that people are to blame for their own poverty goes back centuries in our culture.If you’re poor, many Americans think,...
No one survives an apocalypse
By Gery L. DeerDeer in HeadlinesHave you ever wondered how people live in some third world countries where there’s no electricity, no computers, no...
Those who know Congress best are shaking their heads
By Lee HamiltonI had the good fortune last week to spend some time in Washington, D.C. with about a dozen former members of Congress....
Remembering Elisha Bales
CAESARSCREEK TOWNSHIP — Elisha Bales, who was born in Pennsylvania, learned the trade of farming at an early age. He moved to Virginia then...
Letter to the Editor
Fix HB523Editor:When it was announced that legislators were going to attempt to legalize medical marijuana, I like so many other Ohioans, was excited, relieved,...
Pastor’s false charge sets real injustice back
By Mitch AlbomLast month, a pastor named Jordan Brown, who is openly gay, went into a Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas, and purchased...
