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Editorials

Now is the time for fire safety

One after another, the reports have been piling up. On Thursday in Shadyside, two dogs and a cat died in a house fire that also caused extensive damage to the home. The human residents were not there at the time. Otherwise, the outcome could have been even more tragic. A few days earlier on ...

Get ready for spending

As members of Ohio’s Congressional delegation discussed the amount of money headed to the Buckeye State from the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act, there was agreement: Priorities should be set for the money. U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said the funding will be $1.4 billion for ...

Helping school districts

We knew it was coming, but some Ohio school districts still find themselves scrambling as another COVID-19 surge leaves them short of staff ... and substitutes. Earlier this month in the Lakota Schools District near Cincinnati, nearly 5% of the 1,400 staff members were out on one day. “We ...

Maps should be completed

Members of Ohio’s Redistricting Commission were told to get back to work — and do the job right — last week, when the state Supreme Court tossed out the Republican-drawn maps that were submitted. A majority of the court sided with voting rights advocates and Democratic groups who said ...

Worthwhile COVID innovations

Plenty of people are ready to say good riddance to everything remotely related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a few of the developments and innovations that resulted from it are worth hanging onto. When the illness arrived in the United States in early 2019, nearly everything ground to a halt. ...

Being prepared for winter

After Mother Nature walloped us with snow Sunday and Monday, we got our second reminder of the season that winter comes every year. Here in the Upper Ohio Valley, that generally means snow, icy roads and also driveways and sidewalks that need to be shoveled. As we got cleaned out from the ...