This Week’s Independent Thinker

Kids are doing remarkable things. In past issues we’ve featured teenagers who insisted on doing things their way – saving part-time paychecks to buy...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Internet, that global source of instant information that is enlightening, horrifying, embarrassing, wrong, lifesaving – you get the idea – has changed the...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Golly, a photographer who has talent, self-confidence, experience, and benevolence. And instead of starving, she’s thriving. How does that work? Carol M. Highsmith donated more...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

A person has to be mighty old to remember when nails, balls, pencils, cauliflower and nearly every item sold in a grocery, hardware or...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Not Without Us is a documentary film that will be shown right here in Happy Town, Friday night at the Aud, and we think...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

We’re such suckers for brilliance that’s also precious. Cincinnati cop James Givens was sitting in his patrol car last week when he heard a pecking...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Yep, construction materials are astronomically expensive now if you can even find them. When adopted Chinese immigrant, Maggie Grout, was 15 she realized that the...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Pictures of strangled dolphins, whales and tuna have been printed worldwide recently. Big fish with so much plastic in and around them, their organs...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Remember when ketchup was declared a vegetable in order to provide flexibility and cost effectiveness in school lunch programs? 1981. The public charter Village School...