Columnists

Searching for fix on redistricting

Regardless of your political affiliation, we all can agree that having two primaries in Ohio is not an ...

Editorials

Don’t waste your voice by not voting

If you are reading this and have not yet voted in today’s general election, we have a simple ...

Opinion

Mayor race shows strengths, weaknesses

What a difference four years can make when it comes to the City of Ironton’s mayoral race. In ...

Opinion

Key questions from the mouths of babes

At least a couple of times each month we welcome Cub Scouts or other youth groups to visit ...

Opinion

‘Bridging’ differences through tenacity

The Ohio Department of Transportation got it right — finally. It didn’t come easy and certainly didn’t come ...

Opinion

Truth stranger — and funnier — than fiction

It is often said that truth is stranger than fiction, but that may not be a strong enough ...

Opinion

9/11 impact reaches middle of ocean

David McCown knew he and his 10-year-old grandson, Kyle, were safe, perhaps the safest two people on the ...

Opinion

Children go to bed hungry here at home

In part because of a concerted media push in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, some powerful images remain ...

Opinion

Nation caught in vicious economic cycle

Scanning through national newspaper headlines Friday morning, one in the Washington Post jumped out at me. “Postal Service ...

Columnists

Remembering Congressman Clarence Miller

In an Ohio House session, when you want to stand up to say something personal, you ask for ...

Opinion

‘You know you are from the Tri-State if …’

How would you finish this sentence: “You know you are from the Tri-State if …” For me, there ...

Opinion

Bullying is anything but ‘kids being kids’

Since the dawn of time those who were strong or more powerful preyed upon those who were not. ...

Opinion

Rotary focuses on leadership not age

It wouldn’t exactly be fair or accurate to call T.J. Parnell the new kid on the Ironton Rotary ...

Opinion

Time to be thankful on Father’s Day

It is the most difficult job I’ve ever had, yet the easiest at the same time. A few ...

Opinion

How would you spend your last day?

The question is simple. The answer? Not so much. “If today was your last day on this earth, ...

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