Podcasts

I’ve always felt I do my best work with a crowd behind me. For the first decade in my career, I covered sports. It seemed like my finest stories came during the state basketball tournaments. I’d dutifully type from press row what happened in the previous...

There are jobs posted, if only someone wants to do the work. Yet every week, they remain unfilled. The boss has to do it himself, or his boss has to do it herself. Somehow the workers are still complaining they wish they had more money. Where’s the disconnect? I...

They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. I’m going to try anyway. My name is David Trinko, and Saturday was my first day as editor of The Lima News. I’m not exactly new to town, as I’ve been working at the paper 20 years...

My favorite part of Christmas Day is long after the presents are unwrapped, long after the gleeful cheers of youngsters oohing and aahing over each gift. I love when all the wrapping paper’s picked up and the boxes are all prepared for recycling. That’s...

Our 7-year-old daughter still believes in the magic and mystery of Christmas. Our 2-year-old dog doesn’t. That’s how I ended up on the phone with our youngest girl, trying to console her after she stumbled into a holiday tragedy, at least from her...

Darnell Collins doesn’t remember ever seeing a Santa Claus that looked like him when he was growing up. That just didn’t seem right to Collins, the principal at the Lima Senior Alternative School, a former Spartan head football coach and a man who happens...