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Opinion.

Transportation transparency

Editorials

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 — ...

Clinic a crucial step

Editorials

County, state and federal officials made an important move last week when they chose to open a health assessment clinic in East Palestine. For residents who have worried for nearly three weeks that they were not being heard, the clinic might be the reassurance they need. “I heard you, the ...

Looking at our progress and those behind it

Columns

Today we launch our annual progress edition — six special sections published over the course of three days that take a look at various aspects of life in the Ohio Valley. This effort is a joint project that we worked on with our sister publications The Intelligencer and Wheeling ...

Inspiration from Black voices

Editorials

Since their inception 97 years ago, black history observances in February have served as opportunities to celebrate African Americans’ rich contributions to government, politics, science, society, culture and other threads in the fabric of life in the U.S. Black History Month also provides ...

Making Black history on and off the field

Columns

Super Bowl LVII made history in several ways. One of them is Autumn Lockwood. At only 29, she made Black history this year by becoming the first Black woman to coach in the Super Bowl. Not only that, she has a connection to the Ohio Valley. She is one of the Philadelphia Eagles’ coaching ...

LifeWise Academy is Christian Nationalism

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, According to Bruce Gerencser of Ney, Ohio in a Letter to the editor of the Defiance Crescent-News: “Evangelicals have now set their sights on taking over and transforming public schools. Not content to home school their children or send them to private Christian schools, ...