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Whether youre in the market for a new or used car, Joe offers some practical tips to help guide the buying process.

There are many factors to consider on vacation: climate change, COVID, wildfires and hurricanes among them. It might be best to stay home.

I might put my house on the market just so I can enjoy the spectacle of people clamoring to pay me more than my asking price. I wouldn’t actually sell it because then I’d have to move, which means paying someone else more than their asking price. That’s the Catch-22 of the area’s red-hot housing market — if your home value is skyrocketing, so is everyone else’s. You might sell high but you certainly aren’t going to buy low. Of course, buyers aren’t going to listen to that. I kno...

The Vax-a-Million incentive to encourage Ohioans to get a COVID-19 vaccine seems to be a hit. Joe Blundo offers other ideas for incentive programs.

Columnist Joe Blundo offers some words of wisdom to graduating classes: Be caring, listen to different opinions and be helpful to others.

Joe Blundo takes a look at predictions made post-9/11 and after the economic crash of 2008-09. Will post-pandemic follow the same route of being hyperbole?

Welcome to the Egg Hunt Court of Appeals. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about: Every year, I hide 10 imaginary Easter eggs and challenge readers to find them by solving riddles. Then I reveal the locations, and, inevitably, disputes arise. Let’s turn to Riddle 1, which said “Egg 1 is taking a nice nature walk/At a place that attracts avid fans of hard rock,/Over 500 acres, straddling counties,/People still dig its mineral bounties,/Cutting-edge stuff that really excites/With...

As usual, the winners of Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg hunt proved harder to fool than I expected. A Laotian Buddhist shrine tucked into an East Side neighborhood? They knew it. Two virtually identical statues of an aviator? They located the right one. The 16th annual contest challenged readers to decipher rhyming riddles pointing to the location of imaginary eggs. The winners of the always competitive early-bird prize are Steve Huggins, 54, of Bexley, and his daughter, Betsy, a 22-ye...

Now in remission, Sari Goldson has started a fundraiser to help cancer patients at Nationwide Childrens Hospital.

I speak of the big red arrow at North High Street and Morse Road. “A beacon for the community,” says Paul Da Silva, who celebrates it and other neon masterpieces in photos at columbusneon.blogspot.com and on Instagram. I asked him for his thoughts on the arrow sign after news broke this month that Tee Jaye’s, the restaurant it so emphatically advertises, would close in May after 29 years. (The company will still have seven other Tee Jaye’s restaurants in central Ohio.) Da Silva sees th...