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We need to teach our children how to live

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There is a quiet wisdom in the way a child watches the world. Their eyes are wide and not yet clouded by the cynicism of adulthood. Their hearts are constantly open, always believing in a way that most of us have forgotten how to do. Questions come tumbling out of their mouths like marbles spilled across a hardwood floor. But for some reason, we tend to take that precious innocence for granted. Instead, we spend so much of our time hurrying them toward the next milestone in life. We are continually preparing them for standardized tests, college applications, their future ...

Guest column/Re-thinking private property rights, projects

Local Columns

As of Feb. 12, the Trump administration revoked the 2009 Endangerment Finding that classified carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare. Trump and his EPA director Lee Zeldin declared climate change a “hoax.” If carbon dioxide is no longer a threat, why are we are spending billions of tax-payer dollars to capture emissions? As Ohio’s Republican lawmakers are moving forward to pass carbon capture and sequestration bills, HB 170 and SB 136, Republican lawmakers in other states are having second thoughts about CCS bills that ...

Part of the community

Local Columns

Shannon Tirone wears a lot of hats in her job at Youngstown State University. Her official title is associate vice president for university relations, which includes work with the school’s marketing and communications departments, alumni relations and even its public radio station. For the past several weeks, though, her assignment that has had the most importance to residents of our area is serving as project manager of the transformation of the former Eastern Gateway Community College building along Sunset Boulevard in Steubenville’s West End into Youngstown State University ...

Hoagland right choice in primary

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Why will I vote for Frank Hoagland in the May 5 Republican primary for the 96th Ohio House? It’s simple, he’s earned my vote by the work he did for Eastern Ohioans when we elected him to the Ohio Senate. As my senator, he got the job done right for me, for my family and our community. I voted for him in the past, and am glad to have him to vote for in May’s Republican primary. Right now we need a solid change. I didn’t expect to have the chance to help Hoagland get elected to the Ohio House with my vote in 2026, but it’s an opportunity I welcome because ...

Groups benefit from foundation

Editorials

Thanks to the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, 11 Ohio Valley nonprofit organizations are getting a financial boost to continue the good work they do in the community. Those organizations shared in more than $70,000 in Community Impact Grants that the CFOV distributed this week. Organizations earning those grants included the Belmont County Court of Common Pleas Juvenile Division Probation Department, CASA for Children, Catholic Charities West Virginia, Childrens Home of Wheeling Inc., City of Steubenville Parks and Recreation, Hancock and Brooke Young Professionals, Laughlin ...

Development money coming Ohio’s way

Editorials

Good news came this week out of the U.S. Commerce Department, which says Japan is planning to fund three projects totaling approximately $36 billion in the coming years — one each in Ohio, Texas and Georgia. According to Reuters, this is the first wave of investments in the planned $550 billion reportedly pledged as part of a trade deal with the U.S. The Ohio project is expected to be a $33 billion natural gas-fired power plant in Portsmouth in the southern part of the state — perhaps the largest ever, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Reuters reports Lutnick ...