Free speech has been on the minds of many in the two-plus weeks since the assassination of conservative Christian firebrand Charlie Kirk. Fellow conservatives have framed Kirk’s murder as an act designed to chill free speech by those who shared his traditional values of God, family and ...

I’m sending out an SOS … for pizza. It’s not that I can’t find any. This is, after all, the Mahoning Valley and pizza is one of the things that we do better than 98.6% of the United States. But despite spending 30 years living and working here — and eating more than my share of ...

You would think that spending 40 years in a deadline-oriented business would eventually cure a case of raging procrastination. But you’d be wrong. My 40-year anniversary in newspapers is sometime in October. But after all those years of deadlines and commitments and determining what to leave ...

Every great movie has a quote that sticks with you long after the lights come back up and you walk out of the theater. In Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western “Unforgiven,” that line is delivered by the acting and directing legend himself, as retired gunfighter Will Munny. The character’s ...

Politicians used to work for us. If you’re old enough, you might remember when that was so. Forty years ago or so, we — the people who elected them to office — were their bosses and most of them seemed to understand and appreciate that. As a result, most were sensitive to the needs and ...

What in the name of Buddy Hackett has happened to late-night television? We had it so good in the 1980s, when NBC’s late-night offerings were appointment TV — particularly Johnny Carson and David Letterman. Carson’s monologues and skits and Letterman’s stupid pet (and human) tricks ...