My sister, who is in her 50s, recently mused to my 13-year-old son, "Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat."

The U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic stands at 200,000 and people and counting. While the majority of the almost 7 million Americans infected by the coronavirus have made full recoveries, a substantial minority has not. Some experience persistent fatigue. Others report lingering symptoms that include shortness of breath, difficulty concentrating, headache, and painful joints. A small number of children have experienced a complex inflammatory illness of multiple organs following infection.

Preparation has begun at the south end of the Walnut Street Bridge for the construction of a memorial to Ed Johnson, now acknowledged as a man lynched in 1906 for a crime he did not commit.

It goes without saying, "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Our current method of electing the president of the United States is badly broken and in need of reform.

The large swastikas spray-painted on the Walnut Street Bridge and art district are gone now.

Well, the coronavirus and the demand for business owners to find ways to make up lost revenue have hit us in ways that maybe we could have expected and in ways that no one could have expected.

The NFL has somehow opened its season and at the same time tied itself to the muddled message of professional malcontent Colin Kaepernick and the BLM movement.

The Big Ten called an audible this week, reversing field and announcing football will be played starting the weekend of Oct. 24.

Congress has mandated the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Sept. 17, 1787, be commemorated.

I'm not sure anything in our country can shock me anymore, and that's saying something.

This isn't really about the books.

I saw a meme on Facebook last week that made me laugh. It read: "It's weird being the same age as old people." That's exactly how I feel: Older, but unfinished.

On Sept. 17, the nation will celebrate Constitution Day, commemorating the day our Founding Fathers signed the U.S. Constitution, thereby creating a document laying the foundation for our government for the last 230 years.

President Barack Obama should have pardoned Edward Snowden.

A few months ago I was having lunch with a friend, and we were talking about the country. America seemed divided then. But not like now.

Marietta, Georgia, resident George Adler visited the 6th Cavalry Museum in 2018.

Billboards and ads on television and social media publicize candidates and their party affiliations.

I said a silent prayer Friday for those lost and their loved ones affected by 9/11. It was the 19th anniversary of that tragedy.

The football season opens with NFL players taking knees, BLM taking the streets, Trump taking a strong law-and-order position and Biden taking a nap.

Picture a huge auditorium with a color guard holding American flags and an immense portrait of George Washington.

Lloyd and Winnie Flessner met in the 1940s at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lansing, Michigan.

The NFL starts Thursday night. It will kick off its 101st season.