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Hobo union picks Akron for national convention
Spread holiday cheer, not the flu at parties
Serve edamame for the nutrition
Newbies get help to start cooking
How to stretch meatloaf recipe
Food Notes: Join Lisa at culinary club's benefit dinner
New eateries expand menu of options
Ceremonies and special events to honor Veterans
Retired Green officer finally gets Bronze Star
John Rosemond: Children adapt to different discipline styles
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Suitcase causes bomb scare at Akron bus terminal
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New eateries expand menu of options
Man says he was punched, robbed by 3 people in parking lot
Patrick McManamon: Here's what the Browns should try the rest of the season
Louisville athlete commits to play for Boston College
Family found dead in Ohio home
Blogs:
Pets:
It Takes All Kinds
The Heldenfiles:
Tuesday Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
An interesting thought from a reader
Akron Zips:
Akron vs. Mount Union — Liveblog
Tribe Matters:
Indians announce spring dates
Cleveland Browns:
Mangini doesn't name a quarterback
Kent State Sports:
Flashes interested in another Cincinnati player
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Shaq: It’s All About Winning Championships
Buckeye Blogging:
Buckeyes Roll 100-60 / Season Outlook
Varsity Letters:
Report: Walsh baseball player commits
All Da King's Men:
More On The Fort Hood Jihadist
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Simply Incapable of Telling The Truth
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (63) Commonwealth Fund Report on Primary Care
See Jane Style:
Muffle Your Muffler
Car Chase:
Clock Tender- Extending the Life of Collector Car Clocks
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Rumors: Akron Starbucks Closing
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Jack is looking for a trip to Southern Ohio the week of November 16.
Sound Check:
Aeromsith looking for new singer as Steven Tyler contemplates solo career
HRLite House:
Personal Rant – Why People Do Not Live in Northeast Ohio
Akron Gamer:
Video: 'Modern Warfare 2' hits the streets
Published on Sunday, Mar 16, 2008
Some of the comments readers left with their surveys:
We are very, very serious comic strip readers at my house, myself, my husband and both our sons. Our boys learned to read on the floor deciphering the comic strips. Each Christmas and Easter basket had a book of their favorite strips — Rose is Rose, Zits, Baby Blues, Fox Trot, and my husband's favorites include For Better Or For Worse and Crankshaft.
Please tell little Billy and Jeffy that they are 85 years old.
My all-time favorite comic was Calvin & Hobbes but since Mr. Watterson retired from drawing his ornery little boy and tiger my new favorite is Baby Blues.
I get confused by the plethora of one panel Far Side wannabes to know which to keep.
Rose is Rose is just plain stupid. Love Baby Blues, For Better or Worse and Zits (I can relate). Guess you have to keep some classics like Blondie and Beetle for the old-timers, but like Ziggy, the material is getting old.
Probably my very favorite right now is Rose is Rose. A lot of his strips could be used by marriage counselors for tips on how to keep romance alive. (And Jimbo Gumbo would be my pick for the closest thing to a perfect male.)
Pearls Before Swine — I liked it at first, but me no like the way zebra story line drag on (get the joke? me either).
Pearls Before Swine needs to be in the Sunday comics — Prickly City, Doonesbury, Rose is Rose and Opus do not.
I can live very happily with the comic pages as is. Please do not make radical changes just to make changes.
Marmaduke recycles all the old jokes over and over and over. Not funny.
Whatever you do, don't mess with Mary Worth. I look forward every day to captioning it. There is a whole Internet industry devoted to alternative interpretations of Mary Worth.
Ziggy hasn't had anything new or amusing to say for decades. Time to go.
Bizarro is the best addition to the comics page ever. Piraro is a genius and his drawing is impeccable.
Regarding Cathy: While this strip started out fairly well years ago, it is now hyperbole in a very deep and boring rut. Over and over and over again — will she buy too many clothes, eat too much food, obsess over too much paperwork? Or is it time for the annual too-fat swimsuit edition?
Love, love, love Crankshaft. Are you peeking in our window?
For Better or Worse is not as good as it had been, going back and forth between the past and present.
Jump start — I'm the mother who corrects grammar.
Funky was one of my favorites until Lisa died. Then they jumped ahead 10 years and now I don't recognize any of the characters.
Funky is the best. Two-time ovarian cancer survivor. Batiuk made me and my family laugh, cry, understand.
Whoever writes Dilbert MUST know someone from FirstMerit! How true it is!
I know it's a losing battle but I gotta add this: Please bring back Prince Valiant.
Non Sequitur would read better if it were given a regular horizontal space instead of the square. I have seen it printed this way in other markets and the detailed drawings show much clearer.
Sometimes I read comics like Prickly City or Get Fuzzy by mistake, and I always regret it.
Thank you for asking.
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