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Act on missing persons changes

Editorials

Government work groups and task forces don’t always come up with effective solutions (ask the Ohio Redistricting Commission), but the Ohio Missing Persons Working Group appears to have come up with some solid ideas to improve missing persons investigations. According to a report by the Dayton Daily News, Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson announced 18 areas of improvement in matters such as communication between law enforcement and family members, sharing of information among law enforcement agencies, training and education. It’s hard to ...

Tax holiday expands

Editorials

Summer is just getting started, and most families would prefer not to have to think about the start of the next school year just yet. But a little planning is important — and the state is certainly thinking ahead. Earlier this month, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Ohio’s sales tax holiday this year will include two full weeks in August — from midnight Aug. 1 to 11:59 p.m. Aug. 14. That expansion — from a 10-day period in 2024 and from just three days in prior years — could make a significant difference for families looking to start off the school year as inexpensively as ...

Consumers shouldn’t subsidize the energy needs of data centers

Columns

Driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers, U.S. electricity demand and electricity prices are rising rapidly. Dozens of new data centers—each with the electricity needs of a small city—are gobbling up the nation’s power supply. Forecasters see U.S. electricity demand growing 25% by 2030—and nearly 80% by 2050. In some regions of the country, it will be far more and even faster. The nation’s largest regional electricity grid, PJM Interconnection—which stretches from Virginia to Illinois—expects that, by 2030, new data center power ...

Whether it’s 50 years or 50 miles, the dream makes it happen

Columns

Lynnda and I enjoyed a second honeymoon last week in Florida at Disney World. We had a special dinner and viewed the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the top of the Contemporary Resort Hotel. Time flies. It doesn’t seem like we have been married 50 years this month. I asked Lynnda if she expected to make it to 50 years. Her answer was the same as mine. The only question was, would we still be alive. We both had bouts with cancer. Lynnda was in a serious car accident and broke her neck. From the beginning both of us intended to keep our vows, “Until death do we part.” We ...

A tragedy back home — the Shadyside flood

Columns

June 14, 1990, seemed like any other dreary day that week to me. It was a Thursday, and I was living in Fairborn, Ohio, attending college at Wright State University. It had been warm and muggy, and about an inch of rain fell there that day. Before going to bed that night, I flipped on the TV to check the 11 p.m. news and weather report. I was stunned at what I saw. The news was reporting that dozens of people were missing after flash flooding tore through a Belmont County community. Of course, being born and raised here, I was riveted. I soon learned that a couple of creeks I was ...

Communists and riots

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Well the inmates are running the asylum in California. I guess when you have communist, I mean Democrats, running a state and a city everything turns into garbage. The sad part, the real instigators of this debacle are sitting back sipping cocktails and laughing at all the “useful idiots” doing their dirty work. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the Mafia would be so proud of the new manipulators. And here’s the part that really stings. They are using taxpayer money given to them by the Biden administration before Biden went out of office to do their dirty work. ...