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Fed report paints troubling picture

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A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland delivered some unsettling news. Indicators suggest there is a 24 percent chance the U.S. economy was in recession in October. The Cleveland Fed represents Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, where the Ohio Capital Journal noted there have been a number of worrying indicators. Credit card debt is rising faster in Ohio than in all but four other states. The Buckeye State had the fifth-highest unemployment rate in the country in August (the Capital Journal notes “despite years of spending billions on ...

Guest column/Coal industry still powers nation, worth defending

Local Columns

For more than a century, America’s coal industry has powered our homes, forged our steel and fueled our prosperity. It has been the backbone of industrial growth and a symbol of American strength, self-reliance and hard work. Even today — after nearly two decades of relentless political and regulatory assault — coal remains one of this nation’s most valuable resources, sustaining hundreds of thousands of jobs and keeping electricity affordable and reliable for millions of families. Coal mining and the industries that depend directly on it employ more than 400,000 Americans. ...

Health care, helping homeless

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Unlike many Democrats in Congress, I’ll admit when I’m wrong. A year ago I predicted the old Democrat party will dismantle in five years. Get a toe tag ready — it’ll probably be much sooner. The communists in this party believe it’s time for an all-out effort to turn America into Cuba. Hysterical Democrats say Trump is king and democracy is dead. Would a king allow them to demonstrate or allow them First Amendment rights? Do people who can’t tell the difference between a man and woman know the difference between king and president? Michelle Obama said ...

Chamber hits milestone

Local Columns

Running a chamber of commerce is never an easy assignment, and it can get even more complicated when the organization has been built through the merger of two longtime groups. When you consider the accomplishments of the Brooke County Area Chamber of Commerce, however, you have to say that the organization has gotten off to a pretty good start. “This evening, we are all seated at the same table — a table of opportunity connection and growth,” said Sandy Kemp. “It’s wonderful to see so many familiar faces, and so many new ones at our table tonight.” Kemp, the director ...

Guest column/Remembering a time when Martin’s voice filled the street

Local Columns

The Polar Vortex is coming — it is going to be a real old-fashioned Christmas season. Who can forget rushing downtown from store to store and spending time looking at windows decorated at the Hub? The magical festive season, which greeted big-eyed children the same way they had welcomed googly-eyed great-grandparents and grandparents years earlier, who had traveled on icy train tracks, then on a streetcar, eating hot roasted peanuts. It was a time of second-hand trees, and homeless men holding a cup of soup from a gurgling, crackling cauldron gathered in the Steubenville train yard in ...

Heartbreak should never happen to a child

Local Columns

Heartbreak. We all experience it, some of us more than others. But I suppose it just comes with the territory of being human. People break our hearts all the time, intentionally or unintentionally. Even certain circumstances can cause us pain. Life is never fair. But then again, no one ever said it would be. Sadness comes to everyone … eventually. It finds us no matter how hard we may try to escape it. We can lock our doors. Hide under the covers. Change our name. Move away. And still … it finds us. We all experience heartbreak. And yet, it should ...