There’s plenty of blame to go around involving the horrific story heavily reported this summer about a pregnant 10-year-old child from Columbus who traveled to Indiana to terminate the pregnancy. Blame, of course, goes to the man who raped and impregnated the girl. The man charged with ...
The Associated Press provides a regular column that its editors call “NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week.” (It’s their way, I suspect, of discrediting “Fake news!” without using that buzzword made famous by our last president.) The AP column is intended to explore untrue stories that spread — usually like lightning — via social media, leaving many who see the posts to believe they are informed and sending off a quick “retweet” or sharing it, further adding to swift spread of misinformation. I, too, see and hear my fair share of ...
Holiday travel is so much work. I’m not traveling for Thanksgiving this year, but I know some people who are. In fact, one of our news reporters already jetted off to New England late last week with friends. She’s young. Somehow, she might even enjoy the crowds in airports and strange cities. Not me. I’m much happier staying home and cooking my own bird. I’m not even going home to Johnstown this year. I visited my parents there a couple of weeks ago. And I plan to see them again around Christmas, God willing. So rather than fight traffic and what could be snow-covered ...
Halfway around the world on Veterans Day — the day when we honor servicemen and servicewomen who would have given everything to defend this nation’s freedoms — another country’s military remains engaged in a colossal David vs. Goliath war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday that his country’s special military units had entered the city of Kherson, a strategically key city in the fight for control of Ukraine. The announcement came a short time after Russia acknowledged it had completed troop withdrawal from the major regional capital Russian forces had ...
If your house is like my house, fallen leaves have been raked, bagged and/or mulched multiple times already this autumn. My husband just took note the other day that within just a few weeks, we’ll be hanging Christmas lights. And this week, I’m already thinking about how many hundreds of dollars I need to set aside for Thanksgiving week grocery shopping, and for ordering my holiday pies. Also this time of year, our newspaper gets very busy collecting and formatting many, many submissions from readers who are sharing their “thankful thoughts.” It’s become quite a ...
Having been buried under an avalanche of election stories, candidate questionnaires and interviews with so, so many politicians over the last few weeks, it’s been hard for me to think about anything other than the Nov. 8 election. Aside from the candidates who have been fighting this battle since January — or earlier for those in statewide races — I’d argue that no one is looking more forward to the end of campaign season than I am. We get so wrapped up in election season twice a year that some of us in my newsroom might even sometimes forget there is so much more to a ...
