In a time of grinding inflation, increasing energy costs and continuing global instability, we Ohioans are lucky to live on top of the Utica Shale oil and gas basin. Stretching across Appalachian Ohio and into our neighboring states, the Utica Shale is a vast, underground reserve of energy ...

This weekend we celebrate the American worker with Labor Day. I grew up in a blue-collar family in Pittsburgh. My grandfather, most of my uncles and many of my cousins worked in steel mills in the Pittsburgh area. My Dad worked briefly in the steel industry. He didn’t like the ups, downs ...

I am not the biggest of movie-goers. I will go, but very rarely have time to sit for two to three hours watching a movie. It is just easer to wait for it to come out on other media outlets where I can see it on my own time. There is a movie that I want to see as soon as possible. It might ...

It is the height of the summer produce season, and we are enjoying it despite our failure at gardening this year. As luck would have it, we aren’t the only people in our neighborhood who regularly raise crops. Of course my brother Larry has a garden again this year, and he has been quick to ...

The late hall of fame speaker, author and radio personality Earl Nightingale said, “We become what we think about. If you think in negative terms you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms you get positive results.” Last Saturday Herbert Hoover High School celebrated ...

It’s summer in the Ohio Valley! And kids are already back in school. The season has flown by so quickly this year that it has left my head spinning. But here we are in mid-August. Students returned to class in some local districts as early as this past Thursday, with football teams hitting ...