This should be a good corn year
Angelkeep has not humanly planted a single kernel of corn. Yet, by all indications, enough has been...
Raskin — Biden’s latest anti-freedom nominee
With all the attention directed to President Joe Biden’s commitment to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer...
Ukraine’s fate is rooted in a tragic history
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to...
WWD: ‘Wondering What Dat is?”
The headline “WWD” intentionally tried to draw you into this story. No, it’s not about WW, or...
Words of affirmation
Thursday morning I spent some time with our now-retired United Way director, Pamela Beckford. As the current board chair, she and I...
Art reflects life: Cartoons display our divided nation
Not sure what exact year it was, but sometime after joining the News-Banner in 1997, I took...
Angelkeep Journals: Look. Up in the sky. It’s Great Egret.
“Great Caesar’s ghost,” exclaimed the editor of that mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper who, disguised as Clark Kent, fought a...
Chalk it up to the best-laid plans
This weekend served as a good reminder that sometimes even the best-laid plans do fall apart from...
Are we losing the consent of the governed?
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
These words of Thomas...
A biting lesson: Don’t ever stop being curious
Carrie Penrod
Towards the end of October, my family and I went to Lake Erie to celebrate my...