Opinion
Our children deserve better than this
Nothing better exemplifies the random and absurd manner in which the Ohio Legislature creates laws than Senator Peggy Lehner’s Third Grade Readi...
Time to fertilize your landscape plants
As cold as it’s been, veteran gardeners are itching to get out and plant. We’re only a few weeks away from the “spring thaw.” ...
We need a new standard for politicians
If you can’t humble yourself to consider the feelings of those you’ve harmed, you can’t remain in office.In the 400th year since cha...
Poignant tales from a diner
Brenda and I were sitting in Classics, a first-rate diner in Hillsboro last week, having breakfast when our conversation, for obvious reasons, turned ...
It goes by so fast
It started about the time my oldest child turned two. I was a new mom and didn’t expect to be struggling with it so soon: Kindergarten.It was st...
Starving kids won’t help them study
Instead of looking at the real reasons students struggle, one Arkansas lawmaker wants to deny them school lunch funding.An Arkansas lawmaker wants to ...
Douglass’ message stands test of time
In February, 1969, a group of black educators and black activist students at Kent State University first proposed Black History Month. Exactly one yea...
Revive Ohio: Greene County it’s harvest time
This article Focuses on an amazing opportunity on its way here Its taking hold even now for Greene County. It is reviveOHIO: Greene County. I love the...
Schools and community: The disconnect needs to be healed
Back in the day when I taught in the Xenia schools, things were different, quite different. As there seemed to be more actual community then, there al...
Greene County under ice
A drive across Greene County reveals a generally flat terrain that is punctuated by small hills and ridges, and in a few places, deep gorges and wide ...
