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Nations have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever. Forever was about 500 years, give or take … not bad, but gone!!

“The law must be obeyed or we will become barbarians.”

The following is a song about baseball that I had memorized years ago. I read somewhere that it was written in 1908, and that they use it in games when they have their seventh-inning stretch.

Two weeks ago, we discussed the “Great Debate” between Harlow Shapley, of Mount Wilson Observatory, and Lick Observatory’s Heber Curtis.

The Delaware County District Library will be spending the week of Oct. 15-21 celebrating its Friends of the Library group as part of the 18th annual celebration of National Friends of Libraries Week.

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

On Saturday, Oct. 14, the moon will pass between Earth and the sun, and central Ohioans will witness a partial solar eclipse.

Spooky season is upon us. Now that the temperature has dropped again, I feel right at home with my carved jack-o-lanterns, black cat decorations, and a warm cup of tea as I watch a Halloween classic movie in the evenings that are growing darker earlier each day. Elaborate Trick-or-Treat costumes are a frequent topic of conversation in my household, as well.

I recently had the opportunity to reconnect with Stephanie Hunter’s mom. Stephanie was murdered by Brandon Ivy in 2019 after she tried to end their relationship finally once and for all. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of Stephanie — her mom — and her adult son, too. Our cases become part of the fabric of who we are as human beings — sometimes that fabric is rough, hard to comprehend, and just plain-old heavy. But, there are more moments, like the one I was just able to share with Stephanie’s mom, that remind us that the fabric of who we are as prosecutors is a badge of honor. It truly is an honor to fight for victims, and to work with their families through the worst time in their lives. What Stephanie’s mom endured during the criminal justice process and ultimately the trial, is unfathomable to most people in our county who are blissfully ignorant to the horrors that take place with our neighbors, our co-workers, our children’s friends.

Social Security is a bedrock of our middle class. It’s retirement security that Ohioans pay into and earn over a lifetime of work – and should be able to count on to be there for them when they retire.