Columns

Don Stratton: Prescription drugs: The great American rip-off
As we get older and the need for prescription drugs increases, it becomes very easy to suspect that there is something very phony about prescription d...
April 28th, 2022 updated: April 28th, 2022. |

Dr. Jessica Johnson: Still learning from Robinson
April 15 marked 75 years since Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball during the modern era, initially playing first base for the Brooklyn D...
April 27th, 2022 |

Holy Cow! History: Radio’s great Hiney hoax
Terry Dorsey needed a gimmick, and he needed it fast. Something clever and genuinely funny that would make people laugh.The 32-year-old morning deejay...
April 26th, 2022 |

Mark Figley: Why Figley supports J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance wants to be Ohio’s next U.S. Senator and is running in the May 3 primary. I first encountered him last August at a local meet-and-gre...
April 26th, 2022 |

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Democrats should challenge Republicans to climb
She was just trying to defend herself. It seems a Republican “colleague” had slimed Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in one of those a...
April 24th, 2022 |

Michael Reagan: Masking the truths
A friend of mine from back east once told me what he said was wrong with the country.“Readers are leaders,” he said. “Unfortunately,...
April 23rd, 2022 |

David Trinko: Ottoville supports a good teacher and coach
Many teachers and coaches never know what kind of an impact they had on the people they’ve taught. They may have made a difference, but they mig...
April 23rd, 2022 |

John Grindrod: The guilty pleasures of yesteryear
On a mid-January day this past winter, I stood over the stove staring down at the small pan in the pre-dawn sixth hour. The temperature, according to ...
April 23rd, 2022 |

Legal-Ease: Access to landlocked property
Ohio law does not prohibit landlocked — lacking access to a public road/street — property. However, many counties and municipalities have ...
April 23rd, 2022 |

Reghan Winkler: Tips for avoiding Airbnb scams
About a half-hour south of the bustling oceanfront resort area of Virginia Beach lies Sandbridge, a much quieter, more laid-back beach. It is peppered...
April 23rd, 2022 |