Erie MetroPark's big annual free event, Harvest Happenings, returns from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Information, including a schedule of events, is available here.

The Anchorage Daily News, the main state newspaper, has run an editorial blasting Sarah Palin for claiming “vindication” over a report the Alaska Legislature issued concerning a vendetta the Alaska governor and her husband pursued against

This latest post is inspired by a letter to the editor.

Democrats are bringing a prominent politician to Sandusky next week to rally the troops behind Barack Obama.

Why not support our local animal shelters the lazy way — by clicking on a Web site?

If you visit the Animal Rescue Site, you can provide food for rescued animals simply by clicking on a big icon — sponsors pick up the tab.

You've probably read somewhere that journalists favor Barack Obama for president by an overwhelming margin.

In my experience, that's largely true.

The Erie County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, i.e. "MRDD," and its equivalent state agency may be getting a name change.

Final election results in Erie County were not available late Tuesday night at press time, but with the last few hundred absentee ballots counted, the final unofficial count is in.

Erie County Democrats are offering rides to the polls Tuesday for people who live in Sandusky and Perkins Township.. Unfortunately, the artlce on this in Saturday's paper was printed with the wrong telephone number. The correct number is 419-656-8757.

I spent a good chunk of Thursday evening attending the Ohio Commission on African American Males. It was very interesting being one of the few white people in the room and learning what it's like to be in the black "reality tunnel," as writer Robert Anton Wilson would have said.