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Opinion

‘Riches to Rags’

Editorial

By FRED MILLER EAST LIVERPOOL —McKinley’s protective tariffs on pottery were long gone, erased by the free-trade Democrats, but sales also were impacted not only by cheap imports but by new materials, especially glass and aluminum. (Grays, Amazing Ware) As dinnerware sales went cold in ...

‘Operation Next Door’ brings home message

Editorial

In naming its latest statewide human trafficking operation, the Ohio Attorney General’s Organized Crime Investigations Commission chose “Operation Next Door” as a way to bring home the message that the people committing these crimes are not distant strangers. They may, indeed, live right ...

State close to accepting crypto currency payments

Editorial

Last week, Ohio moved one step closer to being able to accept crypto currency as payment for state fees and services. The news was greeted with congratulations from officials such as Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose. “Ohio has always been a state of pioneers and innovators,” LaRose ...

Support Ohio Senate Bill 167

Letters To The Editor

Support Ohio Senate Bill 167 To The editor: When I founded Moving Wellsville Forward, it was about keeping our youth connected to their community. As a former councilman and school board member, I’m watching very closely how Ohio’s legislature is currently considering legislation to ...

‘Riches to Rags’ Part 2

Editorial

EAST LIVERPOOL - Homer J. Taylor succeeded his father Col. John N. Taylor as president of the giant Knowles, Taylor and Knowles pottery when John died in 1914. In 1935, long after Homer had lost that position and KT&K went under, when he was ill and his family was scratching out a living ...

Never seemed that Tressel’s heart was in governor run

Local Columns

A Vivek Ramaswamy-Jim Tressel matchup for the Republican gubernatorial nomination would have been fascinating. But Tressel, who went from retired Youngstown State University president and a famed former college football coach to being appointed lieutenant governor, opted not to run in 2026 for ...