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Data center debate prompts monitoring discussion in Martins Ferry

MARTINS FERRY — As AI data center development draws growing scrutiny across the region, Martins Ferry may be moving to get ahead of potential impacts by exploring preemptive monitoring measures and discussing how to protect local environmental and public health conditions. The discussion ...

Ohio tax system overhaul better than credits, think tank says

Instead of awarding job creation tax credits to individual companies that expand or build new businesses in Ohio, the state should focus on overhauling its entire tax code to make it more favorable to all businesses, a senior research fellow at a non-profit think tank told The Center Square. The state recently approved $26.1 million job creation tax credits for seven new projects that are projected to represent a total of $1.1 billion and create 1,221 new jobs and preserve 1,089 existing jobs. Greg Lawson, with The Buckeye Institute, believes some tax credits are valuable but creating ...

Wheeling Independence Hall Site Director Debbie Jones Retiring

WHEELING – West Virginia Independence Hall site director Debbie Jones will be retiring from her job later this year. Her last day will be Oct. 31. Jones took over as site director at WVIH in May 2016, and said leaving will be “bittersweet.” “You work to retire, in my opinion,” she ...