There’s no silver lining to be found in Sunday’s front-page report about fentanyl’s direct tie to the recent rash of overdoses in Butler County.
Simply put, this synthet...
I know that when one challenges the policy of an administration, especially of one’s own party, you risk entering the danger zone. But for 12 years in the Senate, I have...
Once again, there are flickering candles and flowers left on the streets of one of the world’s great cities to mourn terror attack victims. This time, blood has been she...
I see a bad moon arising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin’
I see bad times today
This coast-to-coast solar eclipse happening on Monday: could it b...
Seventy-six years ago this week, Nazi prisoner 16670, a Polish priest named Maximilian Kolbe, died in a German concentration camp.
Kolbe had been sent to Auschwitz, perh...
Sooner or later, maybe today, there will be another fatal encounter between law enforcement and a citizen that will raise questions as to whether or not the police respo...
After threatening fire and fury, how does a superpower de-escalate? By scrambling its secretary of State, secretary of Defense and military chief to reassure foreign lea...
Forty-four.
That’s the number of people county officials know for sure have died from opioid-related drug overdoses so far this year. The real number is likely higher be...
It’s an exciting time to be a teacher or student at Freeport High School. Within a stone’s throw of the school is a live clinic in civics, history, economics, moral choi...
God is in the details.
That’s an older, convoluted way of saying that when we pay attention to the little things it can end up giving us big rewards. The details are imp...
