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She shapes the question in a voice of rainy-day melancholy, frames it with piano meditation.

Does your family eat together?

I know it’s a stretch.

I am completely certain that I said, “Do not get in the water. There are no dry clothes in the car. You did not wear clothes for wading.”

Several years ago before the great basketball player John Havlicek’s passing in 2019, I had the good fortune to spend some time with John and his wife Beth. They were in Lima to take part in a golf outing to benefit cancer research and to see Gary Gearhart and his wife Kay. Gearhart was a teammate of Havlicek’s on Ohio State’s only NCAA championship squad back in 1960.

I have not read all of the reports or watched all of the public service announcements recently made concerning the increase in the number of jury duty no-shows.

As Republicans target crime as a focal point in the upcoming election, what they fail to acknowledge is that seven of the states in the top 10 with the highest per capita crime rate are all red states.

There’s no question about it: Ohioans are getting hammered by inflation and rising costs – at the grocery store, the gas pump and just about anywhere they see a price tag. Working people need relief now, and it’s why I’ve relentlessly advocated for a middle-class tax cut that will help families shoulder this pain.

There’s no delicate way to say this, so here goes. Your great-great-grandparents had a weird thing about hair.

There are two reasons voters should think about immigration when they go to the polls (or however they cast ballots these days). First and most apparent is the fallout of President Biden’s border crisis on communities all over the country. But second is what the administration’s willful violation of immigration law means for all other areas of policy.