By Ron Leir Have you heard the commercials pleading with New York City drivers to be…
Category: Opinion
‘Those who fail to learn from history…’
By Karen Zautyk “… are doomed to repeat it.” I would attribute that quote, but my…
Cirne still missing
By the time you’re reading this, it will have been nearly two weeks since 51-year-old Vitorino…
Getting at the truth can be dangerous to your health
By Ron Leir It’s a dangerous world out there and nobody knows that better than foreign…
Memories of (pre-casino) Atlantic City
By Karen Zautyk What do Louis Armstrong, Conway Twitty, Mr. Peanut and Elsie the Cow have in…
Approaching a corner with an SUV parked at it? Hold on for your life!
By Kevin Canessa The other day, a good friend of mine and I were driving along…
A bit of forgotten baseball history
By Karen Zautyk Did you know that Cleveland once had a pro-baseball team called the Spiders?…
There’s plenty of help out there for those afflicted by mental illness
By Kevin Canessa For this week’s edition of The Observer, I was fortunate to be able…
Give the Devil a sporting chance
By Karen Zautyk I had an unexpected house guest this weekend — my good friend the…
On Starbucks, Santana & more …
This is one of those weeks where I get to do a column for the second…
Thou shalt not steal
By Karen Zautyk Sometimes I wonder why my parents did not put me up for adoption.…
Remembering Shawn and Robert … 12 years later
Christmas 2005 was different than others from the get-go. For starters, it wasn’t all that cold…
A (belated) Christmas Story
By Karen Zautyk Sometimes I wonder why my parents did not put me up for adoption.…
A free ride is a transitory thing
By Ron Leir Looks like Santa didn’t stock any goodies in his bag for already beleaguered…
On YouTube, winter festivals & more
By Kevin Canessa There is a lot going on so for this week’s column, I thought…