Petitioners Ask Ohio Supreme Court to reject redrawn legislative maps; order commission to consider...
This morning, in response to the third set of state legislative maps approved on party lines by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, the petitioners in...
Reflections: The Cardington High School class of 1936
I recently wrote an updated history of the Cardington School and in that history is an interview I made in 1991 with retired Cardington...
Reflections: Blizzards and other past events
I’ve read much about the blizzard of 1978 this week but one year before that there was the blizzard of 1977. In fact, the...
Career comes full circle
I left my parents’ home in the West Virginia Panhandle steel town of Weirton and drove 84 miles west to a little town of...
Support Ohio’s newspapers vs. Big Tech
Media outlets in America are boxing with the biggies. In this corner: Google and FaceBook (rebranded as Meta). In that corner: multiple newspapers. Shake...
Reflections: Cardington is 200 years old
I plan to have more on the Cardington history later but I am reading the story of Cardington written by a resident and teacher,...
Reflections: Tales of girl corn grower
Yes, this was the headline in a January, 1916 Morrow County Independent newspaper. It was headline news when a girl, “Miss Leelo Jones, was...
Reflections: A contrast in news reporting
As you know I love looking through past newspapers and read the contrasts between the news of that time and that of today. For...
Ohio, Make 2022 a year to read
No pressure. No noble goal to read 101 books in 12 months. No guilt. Just read.In 2021, a Pew Research Center survey found that...
Reflections: Comparing December 1932 to today
Reading or listening to the national news today can be discouraging and one wonders if we will once again enjoy more pleasant times.I was...
