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Cause and effect

In school we learn about cause and effect: What we do at one point will have impact at another point down the line. You can look at this in a negative way – choosing to do something you know has high risks, and you will receive your consequences (aka effects) of your actions. Or you can ...

Gadgets to help older adults carry on day-to-day functions

Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, injuries and impairments that affect older adults. With this in mind, we at the local Visiting Angels ...

Race is on to replace Johnson in Congress

U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson’s plan to resign his House seat in February or early March to become Youngstown State University president would open a safe Republican seat for which state Sen. Michael Rulli is seen as an early favorite. Rulli, R-Salem, filed a declaration of candidacy and created a ...

Beware the risks

We have spoken a number of times about the dangers, the high risks, involved with substances bought off the streets and the dealers that some people trust with their lives. Actually, the dealers don’t care. If they cared they wouldn’t deal to you. A couple of weeks ago, the Ohio Narcotics ...

YSU President-elect Johnson criticized higher education

While U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson isn’t the first Republican selected as Youngstown State University president, he is a partisan conservative who has served in Congress for 13 years. Johnson, R-Marietta, faced criticism by alumni, students and faculty for his politics including opposing gay ...

Filling the butternut hole

I found something delightful at a late-summer yard sale in an Ohio River Valley town. Green-hulled nuts littered the ground under a magnificent, towering tree on one side of the home. At first glance I assumed them to be black walnuts, and in fact there were round, green-hulled black walnuts ...