Everyone seems to be chiming in with their opinion on Sandusky's grass cutting scandal. And I feel the need to put my two cents in. The story starts with 48-year-old John Hamilton seeing Central Park's grass over a foot tall. So last week he went out and did something about it.

As some of you noticed about six weeks ago, we put the forums and blogs into a new web framework. It was not problem-free when we launched it, but it didn't have too many major bugs — of course our goal is always zero, and I would have preferred things to go smoother myself.

...of the following email sent from city manager Matt Kline to city resident Sharon Johnson and copied to all seven commissioners.  (Which is, incidentally, how it got released to the public.  The public owns Matt Kline's email account and we have access to all of his communications.)  The exchan

The week started out pretty well, but I am still on my own as far as workouts go. My personal trainer Trevor Tieche of Bodi N Balance has been very busy getting his gym moved to a new location in Mount Vernon. Hopefully, we can get back on track next week with regular workouts together.

Double talk, yes.  But the city won't be recharging Hamilton.  On that I'd bet money.

Double talk, yes.  But the city won't be recharging Hamilton.  On that I'd bet money.

It means the city is trying to accomodate two viewpoints: 

I receive a very informative newsletter from attorney John Ball with Meyers, Browning & Ball. They are elder law attorneys (www.elderlaw.us).  

I met Ken Cutcher, my new trainer on June 5. I was a little nervous and kinda felt out of place when I arrived at Anytime Fitness, 3104 Milan Road.

There have been quite a few recent stories in the media about “sexting.”

Who even came up with that word? I honestly think the term is stupid. It was probably an adult who was entirely too focused on keeping up with teenage jargon. But they failed. That’s beside the point, though.

Saturday morning I went to Central Park, where I planned to mow the grass. Thought it would be a good idea. Just wanted to spruce the old place up a bit. The notion to do it hit me with a quiet Hamiltonian zeal; almost Zen-like.

Not too long ago, a regular user of our site asked me if we would ever consider offering users the opportunity to vote on the comments on our site.