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Opinion.

Improving school bus safety

Editorials

House Bill 3 made its way to the Ohio Senate after having encountered no naysayers during the House of Representatives vote Wednesday. It seems unlikely there will be much resistance in the state Senate, either, as the School Bus Safety Act includes some important ways to keep students and ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The changing ­— but always crucial — role of dads

Columns

The evidence suggests that a role of the father in the United States is changing and that the male parent can contribute much more to the child’s development during the first months of life than was formerly believed. At a Rotary meeting that I attended, a pediatrician doctor, who is very ...

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 ...