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State close to accepting crypto currency payments

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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 said. “I want to commend Treasurer (Robert) Sprague, Auditor (Keith) Faber, and Attorney General (Dave) Yost for taking this bold step to position us at the forefront of the emerging digital economy. There’s a reason why we now rank among the top five states in the nation to do business. It’s ...

Support Ohio Senate Bill 167

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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 protect kids online, and right now there’s two competing approaches to using age verification to give parents more visibility as to what platforms their kids are using online. One, Senate Bill 167, is straightforward, the other, House Bill 302, is going to create a miserable headache for the parents ...

‘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 in ...

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 governor. It never seemed that Tressel’s heart was in a governor’s campaign. It’s understandable considering he was named lieutenant governor a little more than seven months ago after never running for public office. Tressel constantly deflected questions about his candidacy while only ...

Kitten creep

Editorial

“Kitten creep” is like “mission creep” but with kittens. Mission creep is what happened with Vietnam. Kennedy sent in the CIA and military advisers. Johnson sent in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Nixon bombed Cambodia. Kitten creep is also an example of “creeping determinism,” a psychological term which writer Malcolm Gladwell explains is the ex post facto belief that a surprising outcome was, in retrospect, inevitable. “Hindsight is 20-20,” the saying goes, but was the outcome really inevitable? There were dots to connect. Why didn’t we? “I knew it ...

‘Riches to Rags’ – From America’s largest pottery to a pottery in a chicken coop

Editorial

EAST LIVERPOOL - On Feb. 17, 1901, a special train carried 350 passengers from East Liverpool to Sebring, Ohio, to witness the lavish wedding of Homer J. Taylor, 24, and Pearl Sebring, 20. President McKinley, a close personal friend of the family, sent a set of silver knives and forks, inlaid with gold and with pearl handles. With the wealth generated by the giant Knowles, Taylor & Knowles pottery, members of the Homer J. and Pearl Sebring Taylor family lived in mansions with servants and vacationed at Atlantic City. Three decades later the Taylor family’s fortunes and the ...