If it seems as though illness has been more prevalent in your school, church, office and other circles this winter, you’re not imagining things. According to Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, this year’s flu season has seen a stronger beginning than is ...

FRIDAY Jan. 23 editorial cartoon

Groundwork Ohio is among the organizations that has signed on to a letter from child care groups across the country, asking the federal Administration for Children and Families to continue funding the Child Care Development Block Grant and other resources. Though a federal judge has ...

Although a longtime sentiment, Joni Mitchell phrased it well, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Ironic how these lyrics are actually lines in one of the songs she has performed so many times before a live audience. Ironic how ...

Donald Trump has a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, but as he tries to browbeat Denmark into coughing up Greenland, maybe he should add a portrait of a Jackson acolyte — James K. Polk. If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are fewer better representatives ...

As Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine begins his final year in office, he appears to have his sights firmly on matters that will affect our youngest residents. Among the programs he hopes to see expand is OhioSee, according to a report by WSAZ-TV. So far Ohio Student Eye Exam has been run as a pilot ...