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This column was published October 24, 2004, in The Sunday Challenger, serving Northern Kentucky. It was one a group of columns awarded an honorable mention by the Kentucky Press Association in “best column” judging. BY TOM MITSOFF One of Northern Kentucky’s best-known native sons finds himself in a race neither he nor his supporters nor …
This column was published August 8, 2004, in The Sunday Challenger, serving Northern Kentucky. BY TOM MITSOFF My father was a tough, dedicated community newspaper editor and publisher who loved his work. It meant more to him than anything other than his family. It was his passion. By his early 70s, right around the time …
This column was written July 6, 2002, and published in several print publications across the country: Appeared in the Dixie County (Florida) Advocate, Tinytown Gazette (Cohasset, Mass.), Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), The Palladium Times (Oswego, N.Y.), Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current, Fairborn (Ohio) Daily Herald, Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette and the Sandy (Oregon) Profile. BY TOM MITSOFF In March, we took the Immigration and Naturalization Service to task in this space for issuing visas to students at a Florida …
This column was written June 16, 2002, and published in several print publications across the country: Appeared in the Dixie County (Florida) Advocate, Tinytown Gazette (Cohasset, Mass.), Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), The Palladium Times (Oswego, N.Y.), Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current, Fairborn (Ohio) Daily Herald, Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette and the Sandy (Oregon) Profile. BY TOM MITSOFF Thirty years ago this week, five men were arrested in the wee hours of the morning milling around the sixth floor of …
This column was written May 26, 2002, and published in several print publications across the country: Appeared in the Dixie County (Florida) Advocate, Tinytown Gazette (Cohasset, Mass.), Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current, Fairborn (Ohio) Daily Herald, Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette and the Sandy (Oregon) Profile. BY TOM MITSOFF Would you want your fourth-grade daughter wearing thong underwear? At least one well-known clothing distributor believes there are parents among us who think that is …
This column was written March 16, 2002, and published in several print and web publications across the country: Appeared in The American Reporter, Media Monitors Network (Brea, California), The (Peachtree Corners, Ga.) Weekly, Northfield (Minn.) News, Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), Up & Coming (Fayetteville, N.C.), Central Michigan Life, and the Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current. BY TOM MITSOFF Three strikes and you’re out, right? If that’s so, then the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service …
This column was written February 23, 2002, and published in several print and web publications across the country: Appeared in The American Reporter, Media Monitors Network (Brea, California), Hernando (Florida) Today, The (Peachtree Corners, Ga.) Weekly, Rangeley (Maine) Highlander, Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current, Central Michigan Life, Richmond.com, and the Crewe-Burkeville (Virginia) Journal. BY TOM MITSOFF As we age, we often ponder the meaning and quality of our lives. One measure of a successful life …
This column was written Nov. 3, 2001, and published in several print and web publications across the country: Appeared in the Media Monitors Network (Brea, California), The Washington (D.C.) Times, The (Peachtree Corners, Ga.) Weekly, Northern Express Weekly (Northern Michigan), Northern Light (Conway, N.H.), Beavercreek (Ohio) News-Current, Fairborn (Ohio) Daily Herald, the Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette, Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.), Mountain Times (Timburon, N.M.), and the Coquille Valley Sentinel (Coquille, Oregon). BY TOM MITSOFF Remember hanging chads? It was a year …
This column appeared in the Thursday, Nov. 19, 1987 issue of the Beavercreek (Ohio) Daily News. The Ohio Associated Press judged it as the top sports column in Ohio appearing in newspapers of under 20,000 circulation for the year 1987. BY TOM MITSOFF With this week’s surprise firing of Ohio State head football coach Earle Bruce, the …