It was a big week for sports news. No, not “Steelers-win-another-Super Bowl” big, but still pretty big. Our sad Cleveland Guardians (still known affectionately as the “Tribe” to my husband and me) got swept over four games by the Tigers. The equally struggling Pirates took out ...

One of my favorite political columns of all time came several years ago from the pen of Creators Syndicate columnist Mark Shields. “After 60 years of hanging around candidates and elections, I have learned that political campaigns do not build character. But campaigns — and especially ...

Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond once wrote an entire column about crime on the seven seas. Dimond, whose typical Friday columns deal with crime and punishment, that week, as I recall, was talking about crime on cruise ships. That’s not a topic most of us particularly want to read, ...

As I write this, rays of bright sunshine are screaming through the window in my newsroom office and bouncing off my computer screen, nearly blinding me. It’s days like this that I realize I really shouldn’t have left my sunglasses in the car. The irony, however, is that the topic of this ...

I was a pre-schooler when the Watergate scandal broke in 1972. My most vivid memory was my frustration that PBS was broadcasting the Senate Watergate hearings gavel to gavel, preempting Sesame Street. Incredibly, it’s been 50 years since the “White House plumbers” were arrested June 17, ...

As we all struggle to make sense of an act that simply cannot be made sense of, families late last week began burying their children. America’s latest school shooting, of course, left 21 people — 19 fourth-graders and two teachers — dead and 17 others injured. The man who entered Robb ...