Ohioans deserve public schools in which students are educated to be informed, productive, critical thinking citizens ready to pursue the next step in their career or education with confidence. Our children deserve more than barely meeting the lowest of standards. But what about kids who ...

Winter weather has arrived, and we have entered a season when we have even more reasons to be cautious about how we heat and light our homes. Working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are essential. On Christmas Day, four adult family members died in New Hampshire. “While the ...

CHEERS to St. Clairsville Sunrise Rotary for organizing the “Noon Year’s Eve “ celebration for children at the Ohio Valley Mall. It was a great success, providing families access to a variety of fun and information. JEERS to the fact that the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System ...

As the holidays brought many of us closer to friends and family — perhaps in large gatherings where there was lots of hugging, laughing and eating together — the inevitable early-winter surge of illnesses is now upon us. In fact, ahead of the New Year holiday, one healthcare system in ...

We’ve done it. We’ve reached the end of 2024 and are looking ahead to all the possibility 2025 holds. Some may be planning to put 2024 firmly behind them and not look back, others may have much upon which to build from one year to the next. Whatever the case — whether our dreams include ...

It is not just federal elected officials who have dropped the ball for their constituents as they got tired of pretending to work on our behalf before their holiday break. In Columbus, necessary change was avoided when Senate Bill 271 and House Bill 263 failed to advance, stalling the effort to ...