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Government subsidies have killed the EV industry

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Here’s a depressing-but all-too-predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: “Detroit’s EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion.” Yikes. That’s a lot of money for the American auto industry to lose. Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of economics: If you want to kill an industry, subsidize it. The best recent example of this rule is the green energy industry (solar and wind power), which has been heavily boosted with taxpayer dollars for almost 50 years now and is still an inconsequential form of overall energy supply. Dozens of promising firms ...

Douglas a wrestling legend

Editorials

There are so many ways to describe what Bobby Douglas meant to the world of amateur wrestling. Legend. Icon. Pioneer. Champion. All are true. So it’s important to understand just what the amateur wrestling world and the Ohio Valley lost with Douglas passing at the age of 83. Here’s a person who hitchhiked to West Liberty for classes and slept in a dorm attic because he couldn’t afford room and board, who became an NAIA national champion and NCAA national runner-up before becoming the first Black Olympic wrestler, an Olympic team captain, a collegiate coach who won an NCAA ...

Marco Rubio has shown he is much more than just the good cop

Columns

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, delivered on Valentine’s Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, “Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President J.D. Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress.” In February 2025, the audience at Munich took Vance’s comments as insults. In February 2026, the audience, as evidenced by its standing ovation, took Rubio’s as compliments. Yet, as even journalists writing on deadline quickly discerned, Rubio’s words were no less critical than Vance’s of what have been ...

Miracle on Ice remains the greatest sports story

Columns

Everyone who witnessed it remembers where they were. The victory of the gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s hockey team over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., was the greatest American sporting event of the 20th century, featuring the greatest call of all time — broadcaster Al Michaels indelibly counting down the final seconds before exclaiming, “Do you believe in miracles? ... Yes!” On the occasion of this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix has released a new documentary on the team, “Miracle: The Boys of ‘80.” It is a story that has been ...

Communication needed

Editorials

The federal government last week announced a $33 billion natural gas plant that it said would be the “largest natural gas generation project in the world.” The proposed site would be near Portsmouth, Ohio, a city not too far from Huntington, West Virginia. That, somehow, was news to the mayor of Portsmouth. “I wasn’t privy to these discussions,” Portsmouth Mayor Charlotte Gordon told The Center Square. “I started calling some of the people I thought should know and they didn’t know.” That also, somehow, was news to Gov. Mike DeWine. “We do not have any ...

Remembering work of Jesse Jackson

Columns

President Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature” and so he was. Jackson, who died last Tuesday at 84, was the last great orator of the civil rights movement. He could bring an audience to cheers or to tears with the power of his personality. I once accompanied him to a Washington, D.C., public middle school. He admonished the young girls in the all-Black audience not to get pregnant and to the boys he said to respect the girls and refrain from sex until marriage. They seemed to hang on his every word. Afterward I said to him: “That should be your main message if you ...