ORCHID: To Boardman Township Trustee Tom Costello for 22 years of leadership in that post that has guided one of the state’s largest urban townships to prosperity and controlled growth. Costello, who lost his reelection bid in November, received praises and a decorative plaque to recognize ...

As we prepare to pass through the threshold of 2026, thoughts of new beginnings abound. Many will resolve to make positive changes in their lives from shedding unwanted pounds to fattening our bank accounts. In the real world, however, few fresh starts pass our way. Our lives, our ...

Last Friday evening I attended the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with my wife and two friends to listen to a wonderful performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” The Kennedy Center has been among the few places in Washington (sports arenas are another) where one can get through ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s early exit from Congress reveals that her tough-broad persona was very much an act. After she angered Donald Trump by demanding release of the Epstein files, she became target of the slings, arrows and threats unleashed by the president and his enforcers. Her ...

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, ...