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Opinion.

You’re That Guy!

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The other day I was at Krogers in Bellaire doing some shopping when a gentleman commented he liked my Trump/Vance hat. We began discussing politics. He was quite articulate and understood the deeper problems hoisted upon us these last four years and things we saw wrong with the ...

Thinking differently creates a regional win on energy

Columns

If we do and think the way we always have, we can’t expect much to change. We will always get similar results. The thinking that got us to where we are today won’t take us to the next level. Last week, Shale Crescent USA was announced as a finalist for the 26th Annual Platts Global Energy ...

Advantages of synthetic turf today: Not your father’s surface

Columns

Aren’t sports meant to be played on natural turf? That’s what I thought when I first heard Mount Union College (now University) was trading in its natural grass for an artificial field in the summer of 2002. It wasn’t until after I investigated this new breed of synthetic turf that my ...

Cheers & Jeers

Editorials

CHEERS to Ohio Sen. Brian Chavez, R-Athens, and state Rep. Don Jones, R-Freeport, for helping to secure $500,000 in state funding to renovate portions of the Sargus Juvenile Detention Center. JEERS to the ongoing threats to schools, businesses and government institutions in Springfield, Ohio. ...

Voters can’t be deterred

Editorials

“This must stop, period.” The National Association of Secretaries of State followed that comment on the “disturbing trend” of threats to elections officials and workers and a second apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump by saying “Our democracy has no place for political ...

Tax credit, rebate needed

Editorials

The struggle for affordable housing has become a pressing enough issue that there is a bipartisan effort in both the Ohio House and Senate to give homeowners and renters a break. The idea is to give homeowners an income tax credit or rebate if property taxes amount to more than 5% of their ...