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Bipartisan effort seeks to ensure Ohio is prepared for health crises

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Being prepared for potential public health crises is not a partisan issue, it’s common sense. In fact, it’s something about which it is easy to reach across the aisle and share ideas. (Or it should be, anyway). Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, and former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, a Democrat, are doing so as part of a commission that has put together a “Good Health Is Good Governance” roadmap, according to a report by Statehouse News Bureau. “Whether it’s opiate overdoses or a pandemic or a styrene leak out of a train, public health always rears its head ...

Company loyalty didn’t disappear; the rules changed

Editorials

For decades, many of us believed in a simple equation: Work hard. Stay loyal. Deliver results. Your organization will value your commitment. Many of us built our careers around that belief. We worked nights, weekends, holidays, and answered calls long after business hours. We missed family dinners, vacations, and milestones because our teams and our organizations needed us. We mentored others, solved impossible problems, led organizations through change, and gave everything we had. Then one day, many highly successful professionals found themselves walking out the door, not ...

Kamala could be back, and she still won’t win

Editorials

According to New York Magazine’s David Freelander, “like it or not, Kamala Harris is the frontrunner” for the 2028 presidential elections. “She is, friends and allies say, content to just wait. For now. To campaign where asked, see how the midterms play out, and let those White House aspirants champing at the political bit launch their candidacies first,” Freelander writes. “But make no mistake: Kamala Harris is very much looking like a presidential contender-in-waiting.” Here we go again. The article is full of quotes from various supporters, Democratic Party figures, ...

Struthers mayor sends out Big Boy thanks to dozens

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I want to take a moment to thank everyone who made the Union Pacific Big Boy visit to Struthers on July 12 such an unforgettable historic success. I cannot express how proud I am of our Struthers Team. What we accomplished together was nothing short of extraordinary. When the Big Boy finally ...

Ohio EPA’s call on data center wastewater was right decision

Editorials

Ohio’s Environmental Protection Agency made an important decision this week when it opted NOT to proceed with a proposed statewide wastewater discharge permit for data centers. It is encouraging to see the agency understands the importance of reviewing this sort of thing on an individual, case-by-case basis. “After carefully reviewing the significant volume of public comments received on the draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for data centers, Ohio EPA has decided not to move forward with finalizing the general permit,” the agency said Tuesday, ...

Abnormal is the new normal for the quality of our nation’s air

Editorials

There’s poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids’ summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. “How high can it get?” one of the boys asked, and I admitted I didn’t know. We had gone through a stretch of bad air a few years earlier — also due to invading smoke from Canadian wildfires — and I remembered feeling worried back then, seeing numbers in the 180s. The air quality index for the town today ...