We are happy to see the progress on the apartment building in the former YMCA building at Fourth and Elmira streets. The building, which long sat vacant, will soon offer 34 apartments, according to a report in Thursday’s Sun-Gazette. As we have editorialized before, our region’s future ...
The request is simple — and, we believe, worth fulfilling. Andrew Hill, Feliciano Dosman and Keith O’Neal recently visited the Sun-Gazette to discuss their concerns about staffing levels within federal prisons, the toll those deficiencies take on the hard-working corrections officers and their fears about the impact erosion of incentives to attract and retain staff may have on the problem going forward. The request is that the constituents of our federal lawmakers — U.S. Reps. Dan Meuser and Glenn Thompson and U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick — reach out to their ...
Toward the end of his on-camera, Oval Office brawl with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Trump quipped that it was “great television.” He’s right about that. But the point of the meeting was supposed to be progress toward an honorable peace for Ukraine, and in the event the winner was Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Friday afternoon after the exchange, while booting the Ukrainian president from the White House. “He can come back when he is ready for ...
A recent visit to a West Virginia University classroom offered some insight to a group of newspaper editors who were asked to speak to a group of journalism students. When posed with the question of where they get their news, most of the students responded, not surprisingly, from social ...
An editorial here several weeks ago focused on cancer’s link to alcohol and that doctors and researchers currently are studying gut health in their probe of cancer’s causes. “There’s no question we’re missing something” was the comment of a California gastrointestinal ...
While lawmakers in neighboring states debate loosening vaccine requirements for school-aged children, Ohio is facing a frightening example of how quickly potentially dangerous (and deadly) illnesses can spread. In fact, doctors in the Buckeye State are stressing that even at this point in the season, it is important to get vaccinated against influenza — if you have not done so already. Among those urging getting the flu shot was Dr. Mia Antinone, Ohio Health’s family resident physician, who spoke with WSYX-TV 6 in Columbus after the state recorded its first pediatric flu death of ...
