A 99-year-old woman died yesterday. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn't famous in the new ...

With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. ...

"When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity." Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the ...

Harry Bosch, the Los Angeles homicide detective created by novelist Michael Connelly, lived and worked by this watchword: "Everybody counts or no one counts." As Bosch explains, "It means I bust my ass to make a case whether it's a prostitute or the mayor's wife. That's my rule." In ...

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended. Our home was in the Dominican neighborhood of San Rafael, California, which was named for Dominican College, the then-all-girls ...

"We're getting close but we're not there yet." In the last seven months since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released her new state budget, nobody in this town has uttered those eight little, but important words. Instead, a ton of the rhetoric has centered on not getting a budget agreement which would ...