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Ed Puskas

Food for thought on a much shorter commute

The nice thing about having a 10-minute commute to work is that my ability to eat poorly is way down. Driving 45 minutes one way — as I did for about five years — gave me lots of time for audiobooks and podcasts, but when you spend that much time in a car, it almost becomes a home away from home. Think of it as a moving couch. No, you don’t stream your favorite shows (if you’re smart), but you can hit a drive-thru and graze on whatever you want and be in a food coma when you finally get to work or return home. Guilty as charged. I don’t even want to think about how ...

Householder’s bid to overturn conviction is a joke

Maybe I should have become a politician instead of an ink-stained wretch. That is the thought that popped into my head when I first heard about the Larry Householder bribery case. But then I think about the downside of spending two decades in prison and I realize I’m not nearly as arrogant ...

Trumbull County needs more than one hospital

A popular meme suggests that you should enjoy your 20s, 30s and 40s because once you hit your 50s, your body’s “check engine” light is sure to come on when you least expect it. I can confirm that. I managed to enter my sixth decade on this rock without ever spending a night in the hospital … at least not as a patient. But in January 2020, I found myself in the emergency room at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital with a raging case of double pneumonia. The saga began one Thursday at the word factory where I worked at the time. I began to feel lousy that morning and kept ...

Election coverage: A news cycle that never ends

I once sat across a desk from two newspaper editors who were interviewing me for a news reporting position. I was more than familiar with the newspaper. I’d grown up reading it and spent the first few years of my career as a sportswriter there. That was clearly the hook that got me the ...

These are not our fathers’ Cleveland Browns

Maybe it’s because sports ceased to be the focus of my work about five years ago, but the older I get, the less eager I am about playing Charlie Brown to Jimmy Haslam’s Lucy Van Pelt when football season rolls around. For years — even before Haslam bought the team — I’d convince ...

Wide awake: A dream becomes reality in the Valley

I’m not a dream interpreter and I don’t play one on TV. Like a lot of people, I have dreams that leave me utterly baffled. Why would Hillary Clinton want to visit my humble abode? No idea. But an entire dream sequence was about getting the place ready for a campaign stop for Bill’s ...