Access to emergency room care in Cleveland is in critical condition.And for that you can blame the state of Tennessee and its restrictive certificate-of-need (CON) regulations.Nearly five years ago, … more

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the demand for older models in the fashion and cosmetics industries is exploding. more

Last week, I was mugged. more

Despite my childhood dreams, I have reached an inevitable conclusion: I could never be President of the United States. more

The next time you go fishing or boating, contemplate this fact: Use of a lake was once the cause of a violent chapter in Tennessee history. more

It was predictable: As reported in the Cleveland Daily Banner on Dec. 15, 2022, according to City Manager Joe Fivas, Cleveland taxpayers will pay to renovate the Cherokee Hotel and convert it into City Hall at a cost likely to exceed $10 million! More on the real cost of renovation later, but what happened to the much ballyhooed suggestions from Fivas that private investors were clamoring to convert the Cherokee “White-Elephant” into a mixed use retail, office and residential downtown-redevelopment anchor with a “spectacular” roof-top restaurant and group-meeting facilities? more

I almost threw away my old lace napkins. more

In the 1980s, I repeatedly watched a recorded copy of the film “Escape from New York” on my family’s Panasonic VCR — complete with tuning knobs the size of hubcaps. more

Don’t worry, America. Big Media will never let Joe Biden get away with illegally taking classified documents from the White House in 2016 and stashing them at his office and in his garage … more

When you have the beginning of a cold, nothing sparkly to wear and you really hate New Year’s, you watch television. If a certain station has the good sense to run a marathon of vintage Twilight Zone episodes, your choice is made from the moment you hear “doo dee da doo, doo dee da doo” coming from what you think is your flat screen-but which could, in fact, originate from another planetary system. more

It hard to tell what’s changing faster, the weather or words used to describe it. more

A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive 0rder 14008 (EO) that announced his commitment to protect 30% of U.S. land and water — 41.5 million acres per year — by 2030. Then, on May 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior published “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” a preliminary report about what’s become known as the “30 x 30” plan. more

Barbara Walters might never have become a powerful force in broadcast journalism had she lacked the chutzpah to extract a promise from her bosses at NBC News in 1973. more

I'm sporting a new kind of haircut. more

“Aren’t you the cutest dog?” I asked the chubby brindle pit bull mix walking down the sidewalk. Objectively, she was not the cutest dog, I suppose. But there is no such thing as … more