I have covered many legislative committee meetings in my time under the golden dome, but I have never seen a worse outing for a new cabinet secretary than I did last week for Carl Ayers, the new secretary of the Department of Human Services. Ayers is only 23 days in, with his first day the ...
* Lineworkers at AEP Ohio’s Marietta Service Center organized a donation drive to collect personal care/hygiene products for students and families in the Fort Frye Local Schools district ahead of this school year. According to Fort Frye Superintendent Stephanie Starcher, it’s a big need. ...
In the 1980s, when Dave Owen was editor of the Parkersburg Sentinel I approached him with the idea of reprinting items from early newspapers. He liked the idea and titled the column “Attic Clippings.” Perhaps some readers will recall the column. It appeared in the Sentinel for three or ...
When the band my sister and brother-in-law are in play a certain song, several of us do the Electric Slide. Tonight we were listening to another band play the same song and I got up to do the dance. Apparently, it is so old none of the patrons knew what it was. So here I am dancing all alone ...
Mr. Stossel’s nuclear engineer who provided most of the input for his column needs a refresher course in thermodynamics and economics. His main concern was radiation and how little damage occurred at Three Mile Island. Nuclear fission reactors that provide heat for steam turbine generated ...
If you live in the Mid-Ohio Valley and rely on public water, it is worth knowing whether your community is filtering for C8 and other forever chemicals. The region is widely known for C8 contamination linked to DuPont Washington Works. What most people probably don’t realize is that ...
