I've long been intrigued by the way yesterday's expensive electronic device becomes today's cheap made-in-China commodity.

The John McCain campaign, eager to change the subject from the economy, has been highlighting Barack Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, formerly a Weather Underground bomber and now a “distinguished professor of education” at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Erie County Dog Warden and the the county humane society are both making extra efforts to find homes to adopt their animals.

The dog warden will have a booth at Corso's, 3404 Milan Road, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with four dogs who are ready to go home.

Librarians like to hold up the banner against censorship, talking about something called “freedom to read.” There’s even an American Library Association site devoted to the Freedom to Read Foundation. In fact, the ALA’s “Banned Books Week” concluded Oct. 4.

I write an Internet column for my old paper back in Oklahoma. For my Offbeat column Monday, I wrote about some of my favorite Internet sites.

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.

There's been a touch of Hollywood glamour attached to the Barack Obama campaign, and for a few hours Friday, it looked like we were getting a little of it in Sandusky.The Obama campaign announced yesterday that actor Ed O'Neill, an actor bes

The Libertarian candidate for President, Bob Barr, turned out to be a mediocre public speaker but quite good at answering questions.

Gov. Ted Strickland has just received a good grade for fiscal prudence from an surprising source -- the Cato Institute, Washington's free market, libertarian think tank.

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

In my experience, that's largely true.