CHEERS to officials with Belmont Correctional Institution and Ohio Means Jobs for providing resources to help inmates find employment upon their release. A job could make all the difference for them. JEERS to news that a well pad caught fire in Harrison County this week, placing workers and ...
It’s tempting to blame the bureaucracy and wonder how in the world an intermittent customer service representative could have gotten away with fraudulently releasing nearly $800,000 in Public Unemployment Assistance, but in this case, the bureaucracy got it right. When Donesha Shepard was ...
One would think that, with Ohio’s school year nearing its end, drivers would by now understand how to conduct themselves safely when it comes to school buses. But a report from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Marietta Post would suggest otherwise. OSHP Lt. Chris Chesar reports the post ...
As lawmakers talk about improving access to healthcare in all corners of Ohio, the Alzheimer’s Association released its 2023 data for the Buckeye State. The trends are disturbing. There are now 220,000 Ohioans living with Alzheimer’s. By 2025 that number is expected to reach 250,000. ...
A common theme is emerging in the weeks after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It seems as though information about what is being transported is difficult to come by. First, Norfolk Southern gave an incomplete list of the chemicals that were being transported in the first place — ...
I have always been an avid reader — probably not a surprise, given my vocation. These days, though, most of the reading that I do is for work, not for pleasure. There was a recent exception to that pattern, however, when I had the rare opportunity to read a book that is unique in two ways ...