OPINIONS
Ask Rufus: Lost churches of Columbus
Lately I have been asked about some of the old church buildings of Columbus that have been lost to so-called progress.
Being Beautiful: Turn up the radio and turn down Memory Lane
What has the magic power to transport us through space and time back to a moment, whether happy or sad?
Slimantics: If an eclipse can stop one war ...
On Monday, from about noon until 3 p.m. (local time), most of us are going to stop what we're doing to note a natural phenomenon -- a solar eclipse. When the eclipse is full, at approximately 1:28 p.m., the sun will look like a small orange crescent and the skies will be dark, but not entirely dark.
Voice of the people: Lee Roy Lollar Jr.
Leonard Pitts: Charlottesville didn't spring from nowhere
It is important to look beyond the riot.
Patrick J. Buchanan: America's second civil war
"They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee -- and what a leader! ... No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller."
Wyatt Emmerich: Another Kemper power plant surprise
I thought nothing regarding the Kemper power plant could surprise me anymore, but I was wrong.
Steve Chapman: Charlottesville, Trump and the resurgence of white nationalism
The birth of a child is a happy occasion that inspires joy and celebration.
Slimantics: An experiment in the Delta
T.Mac Howard is not your typical civic club speaker, which probably accounts for his popularity.
Local voices: Streams of bliss flowing across the universe
Almost a century ago, Rabindranath Tagore -- Indian Noble Laureate for Literature in 1913 -- wrote a song beginning the line, "Streams of bliss are flowing across the universe."
Voice of the people: Jim Borsig
Froma Harrop: Trump no longer shocks. Helpers who know better do
An insane woman was madly swinging her pocketbook at strangers on the street. No one tried to shame or reason with her.
Home Base: Truth and myths about American exceptionalism
Every time you flip on a light switch, you are literally unleashing evidence the idea of American exceptionalism, at least in its traditionally accepted form, is false.
Bernard Goldberg: Trump's refusal to denounce bigotry
I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist. I don't think he's a closet white supremacist or a suit and tie neo-Nazi. I don't believe he hates Jews.
Our View: Confederate monuments: The time for conversation is now
Only hours after a protest organized by white nationalists against the removal of a Confederate monument erupted in chaos and deadly violence Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Southern mayor announced the violence had caused him to speed up plans for relocating Confederate statuary in his town.
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1. Ask Rufus: Lost churches of Columbus LOCAL COLUMNS
2. Editorial Cartoons for 8-20-17 NATIONAL COLUMNS
3. Voice of the people: Lee Roy Lollar Jr. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (VOICE@CDISPATCH.COM)
4. Slimantics: If an eclipse can stop one war ... LOCAL COLUMNS
5. Roses and thorns: 8/20/17 ROSES & THORNS
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