Man, I didn’t realize that writing my final “Wearing Thin” column would be so difficult. What a time to get writer’s block!
Ohio University students already were busily moving out of Athens this past weekend according to various social media reports, which suggests …
Tonight, the biggest American sports story so far in 2020 will take place a few miles up the highway in The Plains when the Cincinnati Bengals…
If there’s any point in the past three-plus years where the absence of effective leadership in the White House has been more glaringly apparen…
At the risk of being sensationally obvious, I’ll just have to say this has been quite a week or two.
To our readers:
The donnybrook that broke out on the Ohio University campus Monday afternoon when so-called “gun-girl” Kaitlin Bennett arrived with a small en…
Dear Sen. Portman: Lots of folks I know contacted you in recent weeks to urge you to support the well-deserved impeachment of President Trump,…
No doubt the Joe Burrow Phenomenon has been good for The Plains, Athens, Athens County and southeast Ohio.
To observe that Donald Trump has said, tweeted and done a lot of alarming things since taking office is an understatement. But nothing has bee…
For what it’s worth, here’s what I’m wishing for in 2020, and be warned, there’s a lot of politics in here…
With The Athens NEWS now located in the Athens Messenger building near The Plains, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking lunch-break walks on t…
Please indulge me in the hypothetical situation that I will outline below. Any resemblance to current events is purely intentional.
The Athens County Agricultural Society took a disappointing vote on Saturday, with 124 members casting ballots against a proposal to ban the s…
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The debate over Confederate merchandise at the Athens County Fair has sparked a lively – and at times bitter – debate around town, including o…
In the spirit of Halloween tricks rather than treats, here’s a bullet-point column about mainly Halloween topics but with one wildcard about l…
Local Republicans are holding their annual Fall Dinner tonight (Thursday) in Athens, and one of the guests of honor is LeeAnn Johnson, wife of…
The violent arrest of a young black man in uptown Athens around midnight Saturday has sparked a brushfire around town and campus that was stil…
When a president repeatedly favors his own political and financial interests over those of the nation and its people, he’s a danger to our rep…
Starting this general election season The Athens NEWS will no longer publish unsigned endorsement editorials for candidates and issues. This e…
Editor's note: This "Wearing Thin" column appeared in The Athens NEWS on Sept. 13, 2001. I wrote it the evening of the terrorist attacks in Ne…
Watching cable news at night, one can get angry and frustrated that so many people not only tolerate the smarmy villain who’s leading our coun…
I hereby ask a question that to some is purely rhetorical:
Forgive me if I’m less than persuaded by President Trump’s crocodile tears shed Monday morning during prepared remarks at the White House in r…
More than 33 years ago, I walked up the steps to the second floor of 14 N. Court St. for the first time for a job interview. It didn’t occur t…
Since a traumatic event I experienced on July 22, I’ve felt a bizarre tingle in my fingertips, vision that’s extremely acute, and a tactile st…
Any Democrat or anti-Trump independent or minor-party member whose top priority in 2020 is anything other than removing Donald Trump from offi…
It’s another Ohio Brew Week, and I very nearly moseyed up to my memory bar to tap another generous pour of my beer anecdotes. But then I reali…