Jerry Davich – Page 9

Davich: For most males, ‘toxic masculinity’ is what raised us from boys to men

January 21, 2019 at 5:01 a.m.

Since I was a boy, I’ve been conditioned to be masculine. Not only by my family and friends, but even more so by our society and our world. Be aggressive....

"God Friended Me" is a new CBS-TV show about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from God.

Davich: ‘God’ text befuddles this agnostic

January 18, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.

While standing over a sink in a hospital restroom, my iPhone slipped out of my hands and onto the floor. I had just sent an update to my fiancée on...

YouTube video ‘auditor’ of police officers cries foul after arrest

January 17, 2019 at 3:15 p.m.

So a man in a pig costume walks into a police station... No, I’m serious. Although not as serious as the man in the pig costume, complete with an American...

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a Make America Great Again rally at Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Ill., on Oct. 27, 2018.

Fact: President Trump is merely a lightning rod, Americans are the lightning

January 15, 2019 at 2:34 p.m.

“Jerry, you are at it again with half-truths and a message for your stupid readers in Lake County. What a piece of you know what!” Betty L. wrote in an...

President Donald Trump talked about what he perceives as a national security crisis in a speech from the Oval Office.

Davich: President Trump is our nation’s true ‘growing humanitarian crisis’

January 12, 2019 at 5:07 p.m.

President Donald Trump nodded his head in front of the television cameras. “I can relate,” he said. Trump was referring to the hundreds of thousands of government workers who won’t...

The New Year's Eve countdown on the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship.

Davich: Vacation is a relative word in our lives

January 11, 2019 at 3:22 p.m.

A baby kept crying. An old man kept coughing. A girl couldn’t stop giggling. A businessman sneezed again and again. Nervous laughter punctuated polite chit-chat. Welcome to United Airlines flight...

‘It will haunt me always’: Sentencing for man convicted in death of 17-year-old boy stirs family’s emotions

January 10, 2019 at 11:41 a.m.

Jennifer Salka looked up from the witness stand toward the man who pleaded guilty to killing her 17-year-old son, Andrew. “I will never see or hug my son again,” Salka...

Daniel is a fourth-generation manager of his family's tequila business, with locations throughout Mexico.

Davich: Destination vacations remind us of the world’s vastness, and its closeness

January 9, 2019 at 8:17 a.m.

On the top deck of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, I hustled to find the two last empty lounge chairs in a sea of sun-kissed strangers. “Are these taken?” I...

New CASAs needed for abused, neglected kids: ‘It’s like no other volunteer job in the world’

January 1, 2019 at 9:06 a.m.

Today’s column is the first in a series profiling the Court Appointed Special Advocate program in Porter County, which marks its 30th year in operation in 2019. The nonprofit organization...

New Year’s Eve emotional exorcism must precede changes in new year

December 30, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.

We live amongst ghosts. As soon as Bruce Springsteen growled these four words, I wrote them down in my notepad for a New Year’s Eve column because isn’t this the...

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