To the editor:The Kiwanis Club of Salem recently held its 52nd annual Antique and Craft Show at Centennial Park. Money raised from the show helps to support the many community projects that we undertake during year as we support the Kiwanis International mission of "Serving the Children of the ...
Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, plan to take their show on the road immediately after the Democratic National Convention ends. Their first stops will be in Ohio and Pennsylvania, it was reported Tuesday.Do not look for them to go too far south in our region. The nearest Clinton ...
Salem residents wishing their robbers a nice dayTo the editor:Recently we were broken into our garage and storage shed. The robbers broke the opener on the shed and left a huge hole in the steel door. They broke the molding on the mian door to the garage. They took the weed eater and the leaf ...
Remember the lead-up to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland? For weeks before it opened, there was speculation about violent demonstrations and confrontations among competing protesters as well as between them and police.Well, the convention ended Thursday. Most of the fireworks ...
The Islamic State is the politically incorrect terrorist organization of the year. That means that what military resources the major powers are willing to devote to battling Muslim militants are directed almost solely at the IS.That is not inappropriate - for now. The IS still controls large ...
Peggy wanted to get a tattoo. Mom said no.Peggy wanted to get her eyebrow pierced, and a tongue piercing. No.The young woman hotly demanded why she couldn't, unwilling to accept, "Because I'm the Mom and I said so." She should be able to do whatever she wanted to do to her body, to label ...
When announced that women, instead of men, would don the iconic ghostbusting onesies in director Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters" reboot, the fan base hit the ceiling. The mere idea of women wielding proton packs ignited a misogynistic tiff that's still polluting comment sections across the Web.Then ...
Another cop was murdered Tuesday. He was Capt. Robert Melton of Kansas City, Kan., gunned down as he was approaching suspects in a drive-by shooting. His death brought to 18 the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty this month.Eight of them were killed in two tragedies ...
For decades, Ohio has proudly mined the coal that fuels America. Coal still generates more than a third of U.S. electricity - more than any other single power source last year - and provides thousands of good jobs for states like Ohio.Unfortunately, Ohio's coal industry is now facing an all-out ...
When James Comey announced his decision not to recommend the prosecution of Hillary Clinton for the misuse of classified information, it was not his first investigation of Clinton that ended without the filing of criminal charges. It was his third investigation of Clinton, and the second in ...
Adopting the Old Testament eye-for-an-eye reaction to violence accomplishes nothing except, perhaps, to leave everyone involved blind. When it is directed at the peacemakers, it harms us all in a very direct way.It has been said of the men and women in law enforcement that they "have targets on ...
How is it that a few small terrorist groups with relatively limited resources have been able to kill so many people in so many different places? We know the answer to that, but it raises another question: Why are the major powers of the world not doing more to stop the evil movement?Not so long ...
Hillary Clinton and her supporters continue to gloat over FBI?Director James Comey's decision not to recommend she be charged with crimes related to her illegal use of private e-mail servers while secretary of state. Clinton now has a clean bill of health to display in her candidacy for ...
Dad always was out to hit big in the lottery so he could help his children get a little bit ahead in life. Every week he took a few dollars, headed out to his favorite convenience store to buy his tickets after he determined his numbers for the week. Every Saturday night he was in front of the ...
Roses for grandparents taking on the raising of their grandchildren for whatever the reason. Often it is because the kids' parents are total wastes: wiped out on drugs, selfish to the point that they are unable to provide for children but somehow have money for their smokes and beer and nights ...
In America today, we have a complete disconnect between the citizens and their elected representatives.Nearly two thirds of Americans oppose Obamacare (64 percent oppose, 36 percent support; CNN/ORC poll). A clear majority of Americans oppose illegal alien amnesty (67 percent oppose, only 6 ...
It turns out Hillary Clinton had an option she did not use, probably wisely, in defending her use of personal email servers for official business while she was secretary of state: Everyone else is doing it.As many a parent has had to explain to a teenager, the fact other people are engaging in ...
To the editor:If you drive east along Route 30 from Indiana, you travel on a completed four-lane highway. But your commute comes to a sudden end when you hit Trump Avenue in Canton, Ohio.To head farther east, you must drive on winding, sharp, narrow and hilly roads, in and out of towns, ...
Jupiter has held man's attention since the gas giant was first seen in a telescope.With its menacing size and its orbiting suite of moons, Jupiter looks for all the world like an undeveloped star and solar system.That's what makes the Independence Day insertion into a successful orbit of the ...
"We're asking cops to do too much in this country," Dallas, Texas, Police Chief David Brown worried aloud on Monday. "Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve," he explained.Brown, whose city lost five officers to a racially motivated killer last week, is right to an extent. ...