These days we are awash in a sea of information from a mind-boggling number and variety of sources, many attempting to influence us by shaping our thoughts, emotions, and ultimately our behaviors in certain ways — to buy this product or service, to support that cause or candidate, and so ...

Have you ever gone on a cruise? Personally, I have been on seven of them – cruising different lines. Most of the cruises were on the Royal Caribbean Line. We were the first passengers stateside on my first cruise. It had come across the Atlantic, then boarded in Boston. I did all of my ...

A few years ago I helped my mother keep a promise. We took Nan home. Nan was my Mom’s friend in the small Massachusetts town where they both lived. “Friend” was a gracious description of their love/hate relationship. Nan was difficult … and mean. ​She had a tongue that sliced ...

Youngstown's celebrated Mill Creek Park covers some 2,600 acres as it winds its serpentine course along its namesake creek for about 10 miles from the creek's mouth at the Mahoning River through Youngstown and into Boardman Township as far as Western Reserve Road. This park, which is ...

On Dec. 1, 2006, the Pennsylvania General Assembly enacted the headlight wiper law, section 4302 of the Pennsylvania code. It went into effect Jan. 29, 2007. The intention of the law is to make vehicles more visible to one another in inclement weather. The headlight wiper law states that a ...

Reading the many heartfelt reflections on the passing of our respected Representative William Clinger, I'm hoping the public will continue to draw valuable lessons from his political life. He served the Republican party faithfully, managing to combine policy and principle, and when the time ...