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Opinion.

Let’s open up about mental health issues

Columns

“Someone could be smiling, someone could be dancing, laughing, having a great time, expressing all this joy, but on the inside, they could really be fighting a battle that you never know about.” These are the poignant words of Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Solomon Thomas in ...

Zohran Mamdani already has started to deflate

Columns

The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor set off — for his fan base, anyway — great expectations of a more “affordable” city. But the Democratic Socialist hasn’t even been sworn in, and some of his marquee promises are already history. Start with free buses. For a city ...

We’re here, we’re annoyed and we’re not going to take it

Columns

I’m forming a new political party. No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I’m being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we’re at “invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files” levels of incompetence, so a ...

Spirit of giving alive and well

Editorials

It is great to see, during the holiday season, that Belmont County organizations continue to think about their neighbors in need. This time, the Belmont County NAACP, the Belmont County Department of Job and Family Services, Local AFSCME 3073, and Belmont County Unify came together recently ...

Inside the Biased Broadcasting Corp.

Columns

Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corp. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.The edits made it look and ...

The government shutdown was pointless, dumb

Columns

Our long national nightmare is over, but the Democratic psychodrama isn’t. The longest shutdown in U.S. history — with increasing pain points across the country, especially among travelers — is ending, while the Democratic recriminations are just getting started. “It’s ...