Blocked in law school, Black women challenged for Court post.

Truthfully, who among us has not needed a second chance? Recently I sat down with two of our shelter guests at Tedford Housing Warren and Cheryl, to hear, in their own words, what life was like before they became homeless, what their journey has been like since, and their hopes for the future. This became […]

I belong to a monthly men’s group (the Brethren) composed of four Republicans and four Democrats. At a recent meeting, every member seemed to agree that Congress is broken, because bipartisanship is a lost cause. Moreover, every Republican member of the group believes that Biden really did win the election, a stance that puts them […]

At first blush, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine doesn’t look like some flaming hotbed of liberalism. With a picturesque view of Lake Erie and scenic Presque Isle State Park — as well as campuses across the country — it bills itself as “the nation’s largest medical school,” and the “most applied-to medical school […]

Any foot-wanderer in our area draws from a catalog of winter walking. Even the least-dancerly among us can downshift from stride to shuffle, or tap the brakes to sidle over our ever-various forms of snow and ice. A recent two-inch coating of dry snow atop old crust and its near relative, ice, reminded me of […]

Doing better in our economy We live with two realities about our economy — it does a lot of good, producing innovation and opportunities, and too many people, and the earth, struggle. Some seem to reap huge benefits, while according to the United Way, 42% of Americans are ALICE — asset limited, income constrained, employed […]

The federal government should ban them. Girl Scout cookie season is upon us, my friends — the most agonizing of all the seasons. Dieters with ever-worsening health like me who need to lose weight are always at the mercy of those devilish treats — as thin mints are clearly as addictive as nicotine. This year, […]

Last fall, the Build Back Better budget bill seemed on its way to passage, the bookend to a successful first year for the Biden Administration. Today, it sits on the equivalent of a railroad siding, with no indication it will ever move again. What happened? The conventional explanation is that President Biden couldn’t corral two […]