If you needed a reminder that student athletes in Butler County are almost always among the cream of the crop, the 2017-18 school year has offered up a cornucopia of exa...
By way of explanation for some of President Trump’s bizarre foreign policy moves, we are often told that he is “unconventional” and that this could well be an asset. It’...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the second of two lawsuits it will decide this term that challenge partisan gerrymandering — the time-dishonored pract...
I was on the phone this week with my Russian friend Val, trying to plan a trip to Moscow, but all she wanted to talk about was Sunday’s tragedy in Kemerovo — and how dis...
Here’s a story about persistence.
On Dec. 12, 2016, Butler police were called to 105 Elm Court for a reported disturbance.
While there, an alert patrolman spotted a clea...
Stormy Daniels, who makes a living getting naked and having sex in films, appeared on “60 Minutes” and guess what? Ratings took a moon trip, reaching a 10-year-high beca...
In the wake of President Trump’s decision to appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, a consistent criticism has emerg...
“Shaming,” the modern, if tedious, trend of shaming the shamer for criticizing anyone, has rendered us incapable of making rational judgments or speaking freely.
If this...
Need a good laugh? Apparently millions of us do — and that should come as no surprise.
When a revival of the 1990s sitcom “Roseanne” aired Tuesday night, producer and st...
The Austin bomber, Mark Conditt, killed himself last Wednesday morning, less than two miles from my home. Fear had mounted with each explosion in our city over the last ...
