Now that the Cleveland Guardians are long out of the playoffs, I have to admit that I had a bad feeling about their wildcard series matchup against the Detroit Tigers. Sure, the Guardians’ epic comeback from a 15½-game deficit to win the division was historic and called to mind the New ...

We all seem to have that one friend who always gets into weird, sitcom-like situations. Their lives seem like an episode of “Three’s Company,” with all kinds of hijinks and misunderstandings. Their theme song should be “Yakety Sax,” the 1963 novelty instrumental most closely ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This From the editor’s desk column was not published in its entirety last weekend, so the full column is being republished today. Free speech has been on the minds of many in the two-plus weeks since the assassination of conservative Christian firebrand Charlie Kirk. Fellow ...

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 ...