Every third Saturday of the month, NASA Glenn Research Station (located at Cleveland Hopkins airport) has a special program at its visitor center.

The Sandusky Library is hosting a program at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 on the Beatles’ 1964 and 1966 visits to Cleveland. The event is the 45th anniversary of the band’s first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

I’m assuming our new president is busy trying to figure out a way to get out of the war in Iraq, just as he promised during his campaign, but don’t forget that we’re actually in the middle of two wars. I’m unclear on what’s going to happen with the apparently endless war in Afghanistan.

This afternoon, someone I know forwarded me an e-mail message, written with the usual breathless tone one always reads in a bogus e-mail.

Bruce Salisbury, an electrician who lives in Margaretta Township, dropped by the paper Monday to show me the bill he got in the mail a couple of days ago from the juvenile division of Erie County Common Pleas Court.

Al Franken — soon to be a U.S. senator from Minnesota, if current litigation comes out  his way — once wrote a book called "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot."

President Barack Obama has just given a speech in Arizona announcing his program for helping homeowners who are struggling to make their mortgage payments.

Last Friday, Congress passed the final version of the economic stimulus bill, and as often happens, north central Ohio’s House members split their votes, with U.S. Rep. Marcy Katpur, D-Toledo, voting for the bill and U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, voting against it.