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The Republicans won the House.

One of our daughters recently said the thought of making dinner every night for the rest of her life can nearly trigger a panic attack.

Of course, with Thanksgiving just a few days away, it’s time for some grateful introspection: to do some cerebral mining in the tunnels of our lives to this point, sorting through our personal hardships and the national stories that so often sadden us, and search for some nuggets of positivity.

In law school, my classmates and I initially thought that a tort was a type of pastry or donut, because we confused “tort” with “tart”.

The holidays are a time for family, friends, and of course, shopping! The pre-holiday sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday have already begun. Finder.com estimates that over 140 million Americans plan to shop these deals this holiday season.

Polls show economic concerns were dominant for many Americans this election season. Unfortunately, voters couldn’t always count on getting accurate reporting about these issues.

As he stumped for reelection in a yellow school bus, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers reminded voters that four years after he’d pledged to “fix the damn roads,” the state had paved and patched more than 5,000 miles of roads after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into transportation projects.

We first heard the term “greatest generation” in the late 1990s with the publication of Tom Brokaw’s book of the same name. At that time the subjects of that book were in their late seventies. Twenty-plus years later their ranks are thinning rapidly. The deaths this summer of two of the members of that generation call to mind the day they met in Lima, Ohio on April 15, 2011.

To get a jump start on the forthcoming holiday season, I sat down to my computer and dialed up my media player and tuned up some Christmas music but I only got as far as one song. That song was “Some Children See Him.” I listened to the words of how some children see him as lily white, some children see him bronzed and brown, and some children see him as dark as they. It made me think of all the anger, hate and racism that we older people grow into as adults. Children at this stage are just the sons and daughters of life longing to be all that they were born into, which is a life of accepting another’s vision of how he perceives the goodness of humanity.

Mike DeWine’s encyclopedic knowledge of government makes him an effective officeholder. After taking nearly 63% of the vote, Ohio’s governor now has a mandate to lead, the opportunity of a lifetime to build on his accomplishments and no longer acquiesce to the extremists in his party.