Columns

Newspapers have long been part of the fabric of the communities they cover and serve. Whether it’s a big-city daily tabloid or a small town weekly, newspapers keep readers and residents up-to-date on the latest goings-on in their communities and across the globe.

Many adults can likely recall mornings during their childhood when newspapers were tossed into the driveways of many homes throughout their neighborhoods. Some adults might even have delivered papers from their bicycles each morning.

Artificial intelligence is going to transform everything we watch, hear and read. You can already see it happening.

When people are losing their lives simply for speaking their minds, it makes me question what freedom really is. This is supposed to be the land of the free… but to what cost? I’m supposed to look forward to my future and what I can bring to the world, but…

When someone in Adams County experiences a mental health crisis, the first people on the scene are usually law enforcement officers. Deputies and police officers respond with professionalism and care, but the truth is they are being asked to handle situations that go far beyond traditional policing. A crying parent…

Fifteen years ago, when my family and I moved from Bloomington, Indiana, to Dayton, we struggled with a classic problem: amid scores of boxes, we couldn’t find the things we needed.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a wacky idea, must be in want of an X account. Most of us can agree that social media in America promotes a lot of wacky stuff. There are, of course, some instances in which social media provides…

Bobbie was 57 years old when she enrolled in outpatient hospice care. I’ve known Bobbie’s husband, Randy, for well-nigh forty years. We both worked at Southern Ohio Medical Center. Randy worked in plant maintenance, and I was a medical social worker. But I never knew Bobbie, which is understandable considering…

It was June 4th of 2024 when a sharp, excruciating pain under my right ribs introduced itself — because clearly, my body thought I needed a dramatic plot twist.

You have no control over other people’s actions. But you do have total control over your response. Someone else can’t upset you unless you empower them to. “They make me so mad,” “they make me so upset,” and “they make me so unhappy,” are statements based on the false premise…