Pearls Before Swine News

Most people can't pick up a major newspaper's comics section today without stumbling across "Pearls Before Swine" . Appearing in more than 650 newspapers nationwide, Pearls has been able to succeed and gain widespread popularity in an era of shrinking comics sections and less opportunity for new strips.

Could Kanawha County please pass a leash law about dogs running loose? They run loose and chase people and kids on bicycles and cars and joggers and bite people.

Kudos to Sen. Dan Foster of Kanawha County for backing a bill to reduce the number of meth labs by requiring a prescription for cold and allergy medicine containing pseudoephedrine.

I was at the Social Security office yesterday. I'm 77 years old and I was the 25th person in line.

Like many of society's pop culture fixtures, the comic strip is a product of the last century's dominant medium for information and entertainment, the daily newspaper.