May 2, 2008 RSS feed / Opinion/Crime

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Thirty-something speaks

Dumped for a trampoline
Mike Maddock
Over the years I've complained a fair amount about being my two young daughters' chief playmate. More...

Man on the street interview gone wild

A television news crew from WOIO- TV, 19- Action News in Cleveland, Ohio, is doing a man- on- the- street interview - kind of like Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" on the late night TV show. More...

Vote for your favorite political cartoon at ArtShack

Vote for your favorite political cartoon at ArtShack Y'Art Sale, corner of Woodrow and Rosewood, 9 am- 2 pm April 27, 2008. As of April 29, 2008, Barack O'Bama was leading by a landslide; Hillary was second; and John McCain was third. More...

Is the ripe apple about to fall?

Letters to the editor
By Ben J. Connell

Socialism is defined in The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edition) as "A political and economic theory or policy of social organization which advocates that the community as a whole should own and control the means of produ More...

Should we vote according to race and gender?

By Ben J. Connell

If the spirits of the nation's Founding Fathers were still around, they would have to be weeping over the deterioration of the present political situation into impending chaos. More...

It's not a criticism, it's an observation.

Gambling - disease or cure
Mike Cox

West Blocton is a small community in Alabama. I was born in one of its suburbs. Before WWII it was a coal mining town, prosperous and booming. Then the coal companies left. Nothing much has happened there since. More...


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