Opinion

David Trinko: ‘Back to the Future’ technology not here yet
Where’s my hoverboard? Where are my self-tying shoes? And where, oh where, are those dynamic three-dimensional billboards?These futuristic fanta...
October 17th, 2015 |
Editorial: Early release needed for drug offenders
About 6,000 drug offenders will be released from federal prisons within weeks, their terms cut short by new sentencing guidelines. Their release refle...
October 17th, 2015 |
Letter: Outreach program changing lives
Changing Seasons Outreach Program would like to extend our gratitude to the many people, businesses and area non-profit agencies that are collaboratin...
October 17th, 2015 updated: October 19th, 2015. |

Cheryl Parson: Avoid telemarketers’ fraud
Have you been receiving unwanted telemarketing calls? You know, the ones that usually come at dinner time. When I answer them, it seems like I should ...
October 17th, 2015 |

Legal-Ease: Suing your own family for torts
Recent news included a story about an aunt who sued her nephew for an extra assertive hug that broke the aunt’s wrist.When the aunt faced the me...
October 17th, 2015 |

Editorial: Allen County Children Services levy deserves renewal
We’re always asking our elected officials to do less with more. In the case of Allen County Children Services, it actually is.That’s why w...
October 17th, 2015 |

Kathleen Parker: The Sanders-Trump magical mystery tour
WASHINGTON — Barrels of ink and galaxies of pixels have been sacrificed to solving the mystery of the spectacular rise of Bernie Sanders and Don...
October 17th, 2015 |

If at first you don’t succeed
I thought that I had shot holes in the aspirations of the politically ambitious lawyer and the muck-rakers from the Cleveland Plain Dealer when the Gr...
October 16th, 2015 updated: October 16th, 2015. |
Los Angeles Times: A legal stall on immigration?
OCT. 13, 2015 — Frustrated by the House’s inaction on a bipartisan Senate bill that would have overhauled the nation’s immigration l...
October 16th, 2015 |

George Will: Emanuel battles history in Chicago
CHICAGO — A Midwestern humorist, Indiana’s Kin Hubbard, said people often confuse bad management with destiny. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...
October 16th, 2015 |