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Ed Puskas

When will the family of Raymond Fife see justice done?

Raymond Fife would have turned 53 on Jan. 27. Had he lived, Raymond might have celebrated his birthday with his wife and children, his siblings and his mother, Miriam. Danny Lee Hill and Timothy Combs made sure that didn’t happen when they took 12-year-old Raymond’s life in September 1985. No one ever got to know the man he could have become. I remember reading about the case when it happened. The viciousness and randomness of what happened to Raymond changed Warren and the people who lived here. Some parents wouldn’t let their kids go outside alone after that. There had ...

Even if it’s ICE-y outside, keep protests out of churches

Don Lemon, in his neverending quest to reacquire some form of relevance after his CNN show assumed room temperature, barged into a St. Paul, Minnesota, church during a Sunday service — accompanied by a horde of obnoxious protesters — to rail against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Like it or not, your information is out there

Last week in this space, I mentioned being something of a libertarian. Breaking down my feelings to an all-encompassing, declarative sentence might be difficult, but it I had to, it might be this: Just leave me alone, and I’ll leave you alone. I’m not exactly antisocial, but public ...

It’s time for the annual ‘Airing of Grievances’

“I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it!” — Frank Costanza, during the Festivus “Airing of Grievances” in a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld” Every now and then, my travels on the interwebs lead me to that legendary clip of Jerry Stiller’s Frank Costanza standing at the dinner table and shouting that line with George, Jerry, Kramer, George’s mother Estelle and George’s boss, Mr. Kruger, watching. Almost three decades later, it’s still must-see TV. There is no skipping it for me — just like stumbling across an episode of ...

Presidential speech isn’t what it used to be

Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters like to compare him to another two-term Republican president — Ronald Reagan. I’ve never seen that, I suppose you could find some common ground in their philosophies, but their personalities — at least as they appeared in public or on television — couldn’t be more different. Reagan could deliver a political jab at 1980s Democrats, who didn’t care for his policies any more than today’s Dems care for anything the Trump administration has done, with charm and a smile. I don’t remember Reagan suggesting that his political ...

College football has changed, but The Game still means plenty

While you’re reading this, I’ll be working my way through some Thanksgiving leftovers and watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat TTUN, 103-0, as Michigan fans go back in time to the Jim Tressel-Urban Meyer years. OK, so no one — even the most rabid Buckeyes fan — expects that kind of score. But after four consecutive losses for Ohio State in the best rivalry in sports, most of us will settle for any kind of victory in The Game. The Buckeyes are the defending national champions after storming through last season’s playoff by manhandling Tennessee (42-17), Oregon (41-21), ...