Opinion
School’s cruel with lunch money threat
You wouldn’t think people would want the title of “America’s Meanest,” but it seems so many are vying for it.Today’s win...
Fighting resurgence of meth and cocaine
Here in Ohio, we are finally making progress on stemming the tide of opioid abuse that’s been hitting our communities hard. In fact, from June o...
Connecting Ohio educators with D.C. legislators
When I first came to the Senate, I met with a number of higher education leaders around Ohio. In these conversations we realized how little opportunit...
Life’s Lessons
It was a day like any other in 1976. When the mail was delivered to my home at the top of Pine Mountain in Kentucky, unexpectedly, a package was part ...
Life’s Lessons
Well, it was a different sort of weekend, to say the least.My cousin passed away in December. There was a memorial service at that time, but this fami...
Life’s Lessons
I have heard many preachers bemoan the need to prepare a sermon for a given holiday – be it Christmas, New Year, Easter or any other holiday on ...
A BLAH morning
Have you ever had a BLAH morning/ When you don’t really feel bad physically, but by the same token, you don’t really feel good either? I d...
Life’s Lessons
In January, a group of people who had participated in mission teams over the past year was invited to help in a mission project right in our own area....
Life’s Lessons
What do you have planned for today? And what if, as so often happens, today seems to sprout wings and fly by without getting that task accomplished?So...
Remembering the real Memorial Day
I’ve become a stickler about some things after years of editing stories for newspapers and summing them up for a headline. Maybe that’s wh...
