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Let’s cool it and unite

Before the recent horrendous assassination attempt in Butler County, in what I considered to be a very civil response to a post on social media, an acquaintance of the person who made the post responded this way, “If you don’t do what we want, we will come at you with our guns.” To ...

Reflections on last weekend’s events

As these days of summer continue to unfold and we continue to complain about the heat and humidity, it’s probably about time for some serious self-reflection. As we reflect on the events of this past weekend in Butler County, we find ourselves saying. “How could this happen in this day ...

Remembering Sgt. Wilson

Victory in Japan Day occurred 11 months before I was conceived. I eventually figured out that the war with Japan had started on my mother’s 25th birthday in 1941, the same year my brother was born. Because everyone talked so much about the war, I thought we had been fighting with Germany ...

Many observers have suggested that if President Biden’s performance in the June 27 debate is any indication of his cognitive abilities, he should withdraw from the race. Biden stepping down is risky, but even before the debate, in spite of being an incumbent presiding over a booming stock ...

Libraries are more important than ever

“Democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources.”--Franklin D. Roosevelt For centuries, libraries have acquired written resources, organized materials, preserved archives, and made them accessible to the public. Internet search engines and artificial ...

Biden and the Democratic tightrope

A day or two following the presidential debate in which Joe Biden performed so miserably, JoJo Burgess, the mayor of "little" Washington and a delegate to August's Democratic national convention, spoke to a group of Democrats in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Burgess, who appeared ...