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Losing weight can help us get healthier

National Diabetes Awareness Month takes on a different significance in Appalachia, and WalletHub’s “2026’s Most Overweight and Obese States in America,” gives some idea why. Obesity is one of the bigger risk factors and primary cause of type 2 diabetes, and West Virginia is the most obese state in the country. Ohio is 15th. Digging into the data gets more and more disturbing. The Mountain State is first for the percentage of obese adults and the percentage of adults with type 2 diabetes. It is seventh for the percentage of overweight children, second for the percentage of ...

Keep first responders safe on the road

Changes in the rules about how we approach and drive by traffic incidents have met some success in reducing the number of injuries and fatalities associated with roadway incident crashes. But there is still a danger to those who trying to help at such scenes. During this Crash Responder Safety Week, Buckeye State residents are reminded to move over, slow down, avoid distraction and expect the unexpected. For fire and rescue, emergency medical services, highway maintenance, towing and recovery and public works employees, sticking to those rules could be a life-saver. “Anytime you ...

Someone needs to make negative ads stop

Paraphrasing a few of the “greatest” hits as the 2026 general election (mercifully) approached its conclusion: “Sherrod Brown has been in office my entire life. He voted to raise taxes and supports transitioning kids and men in women’s sports.” “Jon Husted took money from Les Wexner, who was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, built all these data centers in Ohio and was FirstEnergy’s ‘Golden Boy.’” “Amy Acton is a liar and couldn’t handle the pressure of running the Ohio Department of Health. She even cried at work once.” “Vivek Ramaswamy sold an ...

Billionaires compensate us many times over, but wealth taxes endanger that

No matter what may have happened in Tuesday's elections, support for wealth taxes keeps growing. Its justification is based on the idea that the very rich owe all of us something, and taxing their fortunes is collecting on that debt. We're told their success fuels inequality and that it's ...

SpaceX CEO misses the real ‘bloodthirsty warmongers’ in Moscow.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Ukraine says its satellite access is finally back to full speed, but the throttling episode of recent weeks has mushroomed into a larger story about the Trump Administration and an indispensable battlefield technology. Elon Musk did himself no favors over the weekend with a credulous social-media outburst about the Russia-Ukraine war. Nobody is stepping up to take credit for slowing down Ukraine’s eyes and ears in the sky. Mr. Musk’s odd explanation is that Ukraine violated the “terms of service” of Starlink, a commercial product, by using it for ...

Sports officials must be protected

Refereeing isn’t supposed to be dangerous. But those who (often volunteer to) do so are increasingly facing dangers to their mental health and wellbeing AND their physical health while they are trying to do their jobs for our kids. During a Steubenville-New Philadelphia boys soccer game this week, an official was injured so badly he had to be hospitalized. Video evidence shows a Steubenville player who may have been reacting to a red card being given to a teammate charging at the official, knocking him to the ground. According to published reports, the referee suffered a collapsed ...