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Support for those who are struggling

Editorials

Winter can be a tough time for those struggling with fragile mental health and other challenges. But for some, the struggle is more than seasonal — and can be deadly. Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Foundation notes adult men in particular experience disproportionately high suicide rates. For some counties, the need for support is even more profound. So, a two-year initiative will partner with local organizations to reduce the suicide rates for adult men in Clark, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning Marion, Montgomery, Richland and Summit counties. Projects will focus on ...

Some annual numbers

Local Columns

With the end of any year comes many annual reports. They offer an easy way for groups, organizations and government agencies to offer a glimpse into the things they were able to accomplish in the previous year. And, 2025 was no exception. Several have come into the newsroom during the past six weeks, and while each is interesting in its own right, there have been a few that have seemed to stand out. One is from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose. His 2025 Year in Review includes a lot of information — his office, as the cover of the report indicates, helps “Ohioans ...

Guest column/Abundant energy key to solving electricity crisis

Local Columns

As America moves into 2026, consumers are looking for relief from an ongoing affordability crisis. While prices for some key items have mercifully held steady — or even come down — other costs such as rent, dining out, and hospital visits continue to climb unabated. U.S. electricity — the one sector that affects all consumer industries in some way—is also racing upward. America’s electricity costs have jumped 32 percent in just the past five years. That’s a major problem for our new digital economy. Why are electricity prices rising so rapidly? Soaring power demand ...

Let’s make a decision

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In October 2022, former Diocese of Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey Monforton informed his diocesan staff and clergy that a potential merger with the Diocese of Columbus was necessary and would be presented at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for their vote that November. The vote never took place and was removed from the meeting agenda due to push back from the clergy and laity. Last Feb. 7, more than two years later, Apostolic Administrator Bishop Edward Lohse issued the Report of the State of the Diocese of Steubenville in The Steubenville Register. ...

Sometimes letting go makes us stronger

Local Columns

There’s a specific kind of silence that settles over a house once your children have grown and moved on. It is a sound I am still trying to get used to. It is not the peaceful silence of a nap time, nor is it the soft, late-night quiet of a household that is finally at rest. No. This is a far heavier silence than any I have ever known. This is an echoing stillness that makes you realize just how much of your identity was wrapped up in the beautiful, chaotic noise of being needed. Once in a while, that stillness becomes so great that it seems as if it stretches clear down the ...

Guest column/Nobel-winning economists share a timely lesson

Local Columns

We live in arguably the most innovative and prosperous era in human history. My lifetime alone has seen numerous technological leaps that past generations could never have dreamed of, including the moon landing, the birth of the internet, and now the rise of artificial intelligence. But this pace of transformation is historically the exception, not the rule — and it may not continue much longer if the infringer lobby gets its way. That’s the lesson to be drawn from last year’s Nobel Prize in economics, which was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for ...