The short, unhappy life of Doha
In one episode of the 1970s television series M*A*S*H, an eminently paranoid Army intelligence officer tags flag-waving Frank Burns a Communist sympathizer because Burns subscribes to flag-waving Reader's Digest.
Judith Sutherland: Sentiment aside, bike is a ‘Slik Chik’
For those of you who have read this column for a number of years, you already know that I am a sentimental fool.
Who’s crying over spoiled milk?
The file's contents spilled out of one folder and into a second. Then a third. For at least seven years in the late 1980s and until 1993, we tracked and reported and wrote about the research and pending FDA decision on the use and commercial sale of bovine somatotropin, or bST.
Don’t bid unless you can pay
Editor: I am a 4-H'er in Trumbull County who sold animals in the livestock sale, which took place July 14.
Fashion police air age-old warnings
Giving new merit to the term "fashion police," baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thong underwear would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws.
A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way
The plucky planter on the back of our bathroom commode still makes me feel appreciated. It arrived at our house one morning in early June.
Average Ohio farm
Wages and benefits for farm employees are not only important to the employees, but to the employers as they try to provide fair compensation.
Don’t fall victim to temptation when grazing in the fall; You’ll be sorry
The drought that hit much of the state this summer added new wrinkles in forage and water management for many livestock producers.
September will pack several punches
In the summer's waning warmth after Labor Day, my mother would order her child army into the big garden of my youth to gather the year's final flush of vegetables.
Start of school is the end of freedom
There is nothing like the start of a new school year to make a child just itch for freedom. This was my first year in a very long time to not be sending a child off to the local school in August.
