Opinion
Campaign finance reformers ready for battle with Trump
Political reformers in Washington appreciate three realities: Patience is a necessity, incumbent politicians don’t like change, and, if the oppo...
The right to not watch football
Is it the beginning of the end of professional football? I don’t know, but Quarterback Donald Trump threw a wild rhetorical pass intercepted by ...
How to get girls into tech
It is often said that women are absent from the sciences. But this is not true. Not anymore. Although a gender gap remains in the sciences overall, th...
Move into a higher vibration
Seat heaters are the bomb. I crank mine up in Autumn when mornings are foggy and just seeing the dew on my car makes me shiver. Seat heaters are as im...
Accept it: Politics are boring
Before I started writing speeches for Barack Obama, his words had already changed my life. On the morning of Jan. 3, 2008, I was a typical college sen...
Nursing home residents need protection
When I started my career as a civil rights attorney more than 32 years ago, my first job involved elder advocacy. I quickly learned that the most vuln...
Another book about the evils of sugar
Gay Taubes is the band leader of the band wagon that says all of our woes can be summed up by - it’s the sugar stupid. His latest book “Th...
Is your pine tree dying?
Many White Pine trees turn yellow at this time of year. Is your white pine tree dying? Probably not, but let’s take a close look at your tree an...
Trump and the art of deal-breaking
A word association test might readily pair these two words: “Trump” and “deal.”In fact, most Americans probably identify Presi...
Johnson: ARC report ‘disgusting’
Most recently the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) again designated Scioto County as having a “distressed” economy; which means we co...
