About Marc Dion

Marc Dion

Marc Dion

Marc Munroe Dion—award-winning veteran reporter and Pulitzer Price-nominated newspaper columnist—is an old-school newsman who fell out of a Frank Capra movie, complete with pipe and fedora. Born in the struggling former cotton mill town of Fall River, Mass., Dion’s sense of humor sounds more like a barroom than a newsroom, and his political observations are more concerned with issues than political parties. Dion’s column, “Living and Dion,” has appeared in The Herald News for 24 years.

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The Hungry Side of My Fightin' Eyes Sep 12, 2025

A few months ago, I told a friend that maybe this whole Trump mess started with two Merle Haggard songs. One was "The Fightin' Side of Me," and the other was "Okie from Muskogee," both anthems of a defiant, exclusive American identity that locked out... Read More

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Roll Away the Stone Sep 05, 2025

Half the country is hoping President Donald Trump is dying. The other half thinks that, if he does die, he will rise again on the third day and send troops into Cleveland. This does not make me more comfortable as I head to the dollar store to buy th... Read More

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Travis and Taylor Sittin' in a Tree. They're W-H-I-T-E Aug 29, 2025

I didn't know who Travis Kelce was until he started dating Taylor Swift, and I only knew who Taylor Swift was because television news was always doing a story about some father who sold the family home to spend $600,000 on two tickets to a Taylor Swi... Read More

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Dogtown, Arkansas Aug 22, 2025

As any pooch owner knows, a dog will eat its own vomit. Catholic theologians hundreds of years ago used this doggy behavior to illustrate how humans return to their sins time after time after time. In America, sometimes our conscience gives a great h... Read More