When I was a young kid, I remember visiting my grandfather’s house in rural Ohio. He was a die-hard Cleveland Indians fan his entire life, up until the day he passed away in 2013. He was a truck driver and handyman; he always took me out to his workshop to show me his latest contraption...
Category: Opinions
Holocaust denier infiltrates Illinois Republican Party
Arthur Jones, an Illinois Republican, has tried to get his name on the ballot for the state’s 3rd Congressional District seat eight times. The man has unsuccessfully run for public office in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas since the 1970’s. But the eighth time might just be the charm for Jones since he’s running unopposed...
House memo shows partiality of U.S. surveillance agencies
Since the House Intelligence Committee released the now declassified memo written by Rep. David Nunes, R-California, the overall reaction by Americans has been mixed. The left utterly disregards the statements made by the memo and claims its damaging to the integrity and reputation of the American intelligence community. The right, the alt-right especially, sees it...
Elon Musk is more than a bored millionaire
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has “the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets,” and with the launch of Falcon Heavy on Feb. 6, it has come one step closer to that goal. SpaceX has enabled a sports car to live on another planet. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket launched...
The weekly: Newsprint tariffs hurt local journalism
Upon a complaint from a single paper mill in Washington state, the U.S. Commerce Department placed tariffs of up to 10 percent on Canadian paper last month. In choosing to protect one industry over another, the U.S. government is smacking the already struggling newspaper market, as 90 percent of all newsprint in the Northeast and...




