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Opinion.

Take steps to avoid the flu

Editorials

While lawmakers in neighboring states debate loosening vaccine requirements for school-aged children, Ohio is facing a frightening example of how quickly potentially dangerous (and deadly) illnesses can spread. In fact, doctors in the Buckeye State are stressing that even at this point in the ...

Trump is selling Ukraine down the river

Editorials

Even with an election just past, there is not much time before we must turn our attention to the May 2025 election in Ohio. Eligible voters must not sit this one out, believing the heavy lifting is done for a while. In fact, decisions that have a much greater chance of affecting our ...

Helping Ohio’s hungry

Editorials

As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget proposal, food banks across Ohio could see a significant reduction in the amount of state funding they receive. Most of this is due to the loss of what had been a one-time $7.5 million appropriation in the previous budget. But that decrease has food bank ...

A post-pandemic adventure in cooking beef

Columns

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the ways I passed the time while isolated at home was by cooking. Although I had never been much of a kitchen enthusiast before, I found it interesting and entertaining to try new and, to me, unusual recipes and food items. I learned several new soup and ...

Learning good and bad from the history of all races

Columns

This year’s Super Bowl Game and Autumn Lockwood made history. Not only that, but she also has a connection to the Ohio Valley. She made history as the first Black woman to coach in the Super Bowl, and the first one to win. Super Bowl LVII & Super Bowl LIX are making history in ...

March is MS Awareness Month

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, n 2006, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). When diagnosed, I did not know what MS was. Others, along with myself, experience the various challenges of MS. No one has chosen to live with MS, it has chosen us. Every hour, someone is diagnosed with MS, a chronic disease ...