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Humane Society could use help keeping pets fed

Times are rough for everyone young and old. There is hopefully help on the way for the economy as well as a cure or a vaccine for the virus. How fast either arrives we just don’t know.

4/3/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Coronavirus can’t kill volunteerism in Butler County

Many of our favorite stories of heroism harken back to the early days of our nation and include the wonderful stories, even if glamorized, of the Minutemen who were ready in a minute to fight the...

4/2/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Be it silly or serious, let’s celebrate our national days, months

There hasn’t been much to laugh or even smile about lately. The coronavirus has many of us extremely unsettled and striving to find the new normal in our lives.

4/1/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Political labels and COVID-19

We are all communists now, meaning that we are all involved via COVID-19 in conserving our highest communal values.

3/30/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Newfound gratitude for time spent with family

The rise of novel coronavirus has transformed everything I’d come to know as normal.

4/3/2020 Other Voices 0 comments

Back in the 1950s, the TV show “Dragnet’s Sgt. Joe Friday famously advised witnesses: “Just the facts, ma’am.” That phrase became a national slogan, long before the very concept of “facts” was clouded by social media.

4/2/2020 Other Voices 0 comments

Coronavirus created a long, global Lent

In the middle of March, when we first got a sense of how much would change because of the coronavirus, a friend joked, “I didn’t plan on giving up this much for Lent.”

4/1/2020 Other Voices 0 comments

Biden the cipher candidate?

What William McKinley was to the front-porch campaign, Joe Biden is to the basement campaign.

3/31/2020 Rich Lowry 0 comments

Staying strong, taming fears the toughest part

I hear the chatter and squeals of children coming from over the back fence in the middle of a spring day in the middle of the week while out front, in the street, there’s a parade of kids on tricycles, scooters and bikes.