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Editorials

Cheers & Jeers

CHEERS to the village of Beallsville, which celebrates its bicentennial this weekend. Congratulations on 200 years of serving as a home to many proud residents for two centuries. JEERS to the fact that Austin Master Services failed to clean up its Martins Ferry facility by the court-ordered ...

AEDs require training

From high-profile nationally broadcast incidents to small-town tragedies that fly under the radar, each of us can think of a situation in which a sudden cardiac arrest might have resulted in a very different outcome if an automated external defibrillator had been on the premises. In Ohio, ...

Preparing for the future

As Ohio works to reinvent itself as the tech capital of the Midwest, officials understand there are many Ohioans who need nothing but a little education and training to be part of our evolving workforce. To their credit, the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation set out to help with ...

Ohioans at a disadvantage

Buckeye State residents who feel as though they are struggling to a greater degree than those other parts of the country are not imagining things. A report by Oxfam America says nearly one-quarter of Ohio workers earn under $17 an hour. According to Axios reporting, that is the figure Oxfam ...

Spread the word about 988

Good ideas don’t always prove to be effective once put into practice. But the implementation of Ohio’s 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline two years ago has proven to be worth the effort. According to a report from Gov. Mike DeWine’s office, the lifeline has responded to nearly 340,000 ...

No outside help needed

Ohio’s elections officials take pride in safeguarding our elections process. They know their responsibilities and handle the job well. It seems some advocacy groups believe they need a little help, and that’s a problem. According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, the Ohio Election ...