Tag: Words

A cake worthy of words

Lorry Myers The newlyweds were living and working in the city, squeezed into Mariah’s tiny apartment until the lease was up and they could move on. I thought my youngest daughter and her broad-shouldered husband, Tanner, made a striking couple. And things seemed to be going fine until I called Mariah on her May birthday. […]

Idiot Trump Wrecks Hush-Money Defense in Just Six Words

Donald Trump basically did the prosecution’s work for them while ad libbing outside the courthouse of his New York hush-money trial, admitting that he did, actually, have an NDA with porn actress Stormy Daniels. “Andrew McCarthy: NDAs are legal and common. Yet, Bragg alleges Trump’s was illegal,” Trump read off a sheet of paper Thursday, […]

Chris Pan, Ohio State grads learned hard way that commencement address words matter

Commencement words matter Re “Pan wants to set the record straight,” May 14: As a teacher of public speaking at the college level, I am sympathetic to the Dispatch article about Ohio State University alumnus and commencement speaker, Chris Pan. On the one hand, commencement speeches are strangely hard, something recently recounted with characteristic insight by the […]

Why Trump might avoid jail over his surrogates’ words despite gag order

Since Donald Trump was held in contempt for his 10th gag order violation last week, Manhattan prosecutors haven’t alleged that any other statements by the former president have violated it. But Republican politicians who support Trump have made statements that would violate the court order had the defendant made them himself. And though the order […]

Tracking the Tallahassee tornadoes’ havoc in maps, words and photos

Two tornadoes that tore through the urban core of Tallahassee on May 10 converged at the Capital City Country Club to continue their miles long march of destruction. That was among the discoveries after National Weather Service surveyors confirmed that a trio of twisters were behind what many are saying is the worst damage to […]