In the mail recently I received a political flier urging me to vote against a Republican candidate because the candidate, according to the flier from another Republican, would allow “foreign workers” into the United States.…

Early on, the United States’ experiment using three branches of government to check and balance one another could have taken a ruinous turn. Before leaving the White House in defeat in 1801, John Adams sought…

Christopher Columbus did not set out to prove that the world was round (educated people had proven the flat-Earthers wrong centuries earlier). He was not the first European to cross the Atlantic (that title goes…

It’s hardly news, or even worth the effort, to point out times are changing. Change is the one constant, as the country and beyond look to find a “new normal” in the COVID-19 era, where…

I stood transfixed behind the barbed-wire fence by the side of the gravel road, watching in awe as bright orange fire snaked across the pasture in Liberty Township. The air was heavy with dancing smoke…

Hernan Cortes fled the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1520 under blistering military assault, losing the bulk of his troops on his escape to the coast. But the Spanish conquistador unknowingly left behind a weapon far…

A snowy sky hung dimly over the Yates Center square as I pressed my face against the glass of what was once the State Exchange Bank. I imagined the teller counter had returned, the bars,…

DAY THREE — I was sitting near the birthplace of silent film legend Buster Keaton in Piqua when Gov. Laura Kelly’s state-wide “stay at home order” came through. The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the nation for…

History has its eyes on you. That is a quote from the popular musical Hamilton, but as we are dealing with a global pandemic it also applies to all of us.  The year 2020 is…

A few thoughts while awaiting coronavirus: — The only time I have had similar health concerns was in the early 1950s when polio was so pervasive. The debilitating virus had been around for decades. In…