We have much to be thankful for this year, don't we? I personally am grateful for the countless blessings in my life -- family, friends, health, an opportunity to write this book and add the word "author" to my resume, and the fact that I am still working at The Blade despite the severe labor strife.
We can all be thankful that our judicial systen did not allow a convicted nun slayer to walk free.
The Sixth District Court of Appeals this week rejected Father Gerald Robinson's request to be released on $250,000 property bond pending the appeal of his murder conviction. The motion with the appeals court was filed by Robinson's attorney, John Donahue, after a previous rejection by Judge Thomas Osowik of Lucas County Common Pleas Court.
Appeals Court Judges Peter Handwork, Mark Pietrykowski, and Arlene Singer ruled that Robinson, 68, will have to stay in Hocking Correctional Institution in southern Ohio until his appeal is heard. He's serving a 15-years-to-life sentence and won't be eligible for parole until 2016 at the earliest.
I'm thankful that the world is a safer place this Thanksgiving.
Sylvania, Ohio, Nov. 23, 2006