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Opinion.

A unique opportunity to visit the Bellaire Bridge

Columns

It should come as no surprise to any regular reader of this column that my job sometimes gives me the opportunity to do things that other people just don’t get the chance to do. Such was the case as we prepared the series of stories that has been featured on the front pages of our weekend ...

Silence doesn’t lead to successful collaboration

Columns

When Lynnda and I do team building and leadership training, one of the exercises we do is to divide the group into teams. We give each team a 1-pound box of spaghetti and a bag of large marshmallows. Then we instruct them to build a tower as tall as they can in 10 minutes using only the ...

Illegals and Census

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The following is one of the most difficult letters I have written in a long time but I hope in some small way it helps people understand their responsibility when they vote this fall. Recently we were all made aware of a young woman’s death in Georgia by a “noncitizen” aka ...

The Cross

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As we approach Good Friday, Jesus’ ultimate question on Golgotha, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mt 27:45-46, 24:35. RSV) as prompted by God’s ultimate revelation to him that “the End” (Mt 24:36) was at hand for his adjudication as the Supreme Judge of ...

Cheers & Jeers

Editorials

CHEERS to Pat Marcum and Discovery Toys for providing Easter baskets to be given to children in Belmont, Monroe and Noble counties. JEERS to the dangerous conditions that have led to a few brush fires in the region in recent weeks. Two of those fire burned dozens of acres apiece. The statewide ...

Local press: Shining light on darkness

Editorials

As we near the end of this year’s Sunshine Week, communities across the country are suffering not just because their public officials are doing business in the dark, but because in some regions there are few (or no) news organizations left to keep an eye on those officials in the first ...