Update: Eddie Mannis says he supports the city’s plan to take ownership of the former St. Mary’s medical center property to avoid blight on the Oakwood Lincoln Park neighborhood. City …
Tennova doesn’t deserve $16 million tax break
Anybody who thinks Tennova deserves a $16 million tax break for selling St. Mary’s to the city for $1 as a place to relocate police and fire departments should talk …
Little Oaks Academy is open for business despite St. Mary’s closing
Little Oaks Academy traces its beginnings to 1967, when the assistant director of the nursing program at St. Mary’s Medical Center became pregnant with twins and was preparing to resign …
Community braces for St. Mary’s closing
The lights of St. Mary’s are still shining, sort of. There are a couple of tree shapes in white lights on the hospital roof, probably placed there in remembrance of …
Persistence, positivity and principle propel Johnson win
One thing we’ve learned about politics over the past 40 years is that negative campaigning works – Willie Horton, Swiftboating, Lock Her Up.
That stuff works here at home, too. Remember …
The lights of St. Mary’s
The lights of St. Mary’s mean Christmas at my house, but every year since Tennova announced its intention to shut the old hospital down, they’ve made me profoundly sad. How …