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With the recent discovery of classified government documents in the possession of Joe Biden, one thing has become apparent. On the heels of concealing the damning elements associated with son Hunter Biden’s laptop computer during the 2020 presidential campaign, “Hidin’ Biden” has further mastered the art of secreting information prior to the 2022 midterm election.

Anna was a typical mom. She loved her kids with the passion found only in a mother’s heart. And something she did for her son made her an icon for mothers everywhere.

Through a phenomenon called “linked fate,” small or marginalized groups tend to vote more as a unit rather than as individuals, assuming that without doing so they may not have a loud enough voice in the political system. However, exhaustion from a series of broken promises is breaking up these long-held strongholds.

As another Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday passes, our nation has much to celebrate as we strive toward MLK’s dream of a colorblind society.

I am frequently in the dark, so I don’t have to go out on a limb to say the limb that recently fell on our power lines left me in a scary place:

More than 20 years ago, one of my old editors uttered words that were unthinkable: “We need to think beyond the limits of the newspaper page.”

In my television diversity course that I teach at Ohio State University’s Lima campus, one of the first subjects that my students are asked to examine is the cultural ideology of the American Dream.

Don’t worry, America.

I don’t want to point fingers or name names, but you-know-who is the reason I shop Costco alone. If this certain someone goes along, we are likely to be pushing a cart so loaded you can’t see over the top of it.

Last fall I happened to catch a Howard Stern interview with someone who certainly is in the conversation as his generation’s greatest troubadour, Bruce Springsteen. In the captivating two-hour interview that covered such a wide range of topics, one portion got me thinking about something more deeply that periodically has crossed my mind over the years.