Opinion
Corner of Hope: Our own beacon of light
It’s been one of those terrible, horrible, very bad, no good days. You get home and turn on the news just to see disaster and despair when all y...
Making it easier to afford a home
Right now, many Ohioans are struggling to make ends meet. Even people with supposedly-middle-class jobs don’t feel stable. Wages have barely bud...
Innovation over interest rates
Ohio’s 15th Congressional District has more than its fair share of colleges, universities, and career and technical training centers.From four-y...
Teach your children to grow their own food
We seem to be enjoying prosperous times right now, with an economy strong enough to provide employment and pay increases to many Americans, but itR...
Protecting Ohioans’ drinking water
Last month, a new report from the Environmental Working Group found that drinking water contamination from PFAS chemicals is far more prevalent than w...
Are you ready for this?
Here we are. Debbie is sitting on the loveseat in the living room. She staked out that roost years ago.I settled into my over-stuffed chair, better kn...
Kobe: Preparing for shocking death
The world was shocked January 26, 2020 by the sudden death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others. A helicopter that spiraled through a ...
How did this landscape disaster happen?
As a landscaper specializing in “makeovers” (rebuilding existing landscapes) I often find myself looking at landscape disasters, trying to...
Deadline approaches to insure diverse crops
Farmers face risk from a variety of sources—weather, disease, markets, financial systems.While crop insurance offers a valuable option for many ...
The groundhog’s last plane ride
Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil is coming out soon to see or not see his shadow on his big day, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. If old’ furry Phil wa...
