‘Tis the season for so many things including scams. We’ve written and reported on various scams aimed at all of us, especially our sometimes too-trusting seniors. Now we offer an update of the last scams making the rounds, courtesy of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose. Follows is ...
On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had ...
When I go to synagogue, I always smile and wave at the armed police officers stationed outside. I want them to know they’re appreciated, but also, at some level, I guess it’s fair to say that I’m trying to ingratiate myself so that the cop will want to put his or her life on the line to ...
Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband’s own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination. Here we are, though. Influential voices on the right have ...
By all accounts, bloody violence inside many of Ohio’s public and private prison walls has intensified out of control in recent years. In Youngstown, the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center has logged more than 15 inmate stabbings — including at least one such fatal attack — since the ...
DEAR EDITOR: I see where Mike Johnson, President Trump and the Republican party is wishing millions of Americans and their children and families by allowing ACA coverage to disappear. But don’t worry! Their present to the people will be the huge amounts of coverage you’ll be paying if ...