September 21, 2000 - Lieberman appeases Arab-American leaders
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman met with area Arab-American leaders yesterday, albeit in a multi-ethnic group of civic leaders. It wasn’t what Tony George, a prominent Democratic fund- raiser, wanted. But he said he left satisfied that Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, would not be biased against Arab nations as vice president.
from the Plain Dealer

September 12, 2000 - Selling Violence: How your kids are targeted
In a stunning indictment of the way the entertainment industry pushes its products, a Federal Trade Commission study suggests that movie, music and video-game companies routinely and strategically target people younger than 17 with products teeming with themes of violence, sex and drug abuse. 
-From the Plain Dealer

March 8, 2000 - Pencil in boy's heart 'a time bomb'
Helena, Mont. - A 12-year-old boy whose heart was pierced by a pencil as he lunged toward his bed to catch a football is recuperating after 2.5 harrowing hours of the pencil throbbing at every beat in his chest. 
--from the National Post
January 18, 2000 - Forbidden Flushes
It may be the 21st century, but not all US technology is roaring uphill.  Take toilets.  Americans across the political spectrum have begun to notice that toilets at the millennium have a remarkably hard time doing what they're supposed to do--flush properly.
-from:  The Wall Street Journal

January 2000 - OSHA Requirements Apply at Home
Companies that allow employees to work at home are responsible for federal health and safety violations that occur at the home work site, according to a Labor Department advisory. The decision covers millions of people, not only the estimated 19.6 million adult workers who regularly telecommute from their homes to their jobs, but also millions more who work at home occasionally--even the parent who has to dash out of the office to be with a sick child and finishes a memo at home.
-from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

December 26, 1999 - More Than Half of U.S. Adults Still Pray Daily, Survey Shows
The United States is still a prayerful nation.  Slightly more than half of U.S. adults pray daily and nearly three-quarters believe that God "definitely" answers their appeals, according to a survey of 1,015 people by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University.
--from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 26, 1999

December 1999 - The Real Message of the Millennium
What matters in history is not always the things that happen but also the things that obstinately refuse to happen.  It was in 1882 that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made his celebrated and dire pronouncement: "God is dead."
-from the Readers Digest, by:  Paul Johnson

October 13, 1999 - Ohio Issues Report 1999 - Issue 1 
Explanation of State Issue 1 - (As prepared by the Ohio Ballot Board)
This amendment authorizes the State of Ohio to pay for or assist in paying for capital facilities of local public school districts and state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education, including the costs of acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, planning and equipping facilities, by issuing general obligation bonds or notes.
- from The State of Ohio Office of the Secretary of State 

July 12, 1999 - Lunacy 101: Questioning the Need for Fathers
Last year the APA published a study advocating that the term child sexual abuse be replaced, at least in some cases, with adult-child sex, a more "value neutral term." Fortunately, after several months of defending the publication of that study, the APA came to its senses and acknowledged that its not in the best interests of children to define pedophilia down (boy, now there's courage for you!).

Biblical Commentary on Current Issues
In 1706 Pastor John Williams* delivered a "jeremiad" before the Governor and General Assembly of Massachusetts. Using this Boston Lecture ("God in the Camp") to castigate the civil and military leadership of his state, Williams proclaimed the absolute linkage of Christian orthodoxy and military victory. He lashed out at the apostasy in the hearts of his listeners, all of whom were rulers, magistrates and major figures in the society of his day (they were expected to be orthodox Christians).
-from the The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert

April 20, 1999 - Wahoo is Out of Style at Library
You can’t check out Chief Wahoo at the Cuyahoga County Public Library.  The executive director of the library system has banned employees from wearing clothing with the grinning, red-skinned Indians baseball team mascot because he believes the symbol is insulting to American Indians.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

June 6, 1998 - Who Raises the Kids?
Following the tragic shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., allegedly by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, newspapers across the country trotted out the usual gun-control editorials.
- from WORLD Magazine