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‘Digger’ Dawson and the Icy Pond Pooch Rescue

Editorial

(The column below was published in The Review on March 28, 1994. I offer it in loving memory of my friend Frank C. Dawson.) Last week Frank “Digger” Dawson risked life and health to save his family dog. The fact that the dog in question is a stupid old fat retriever which nobody in the family likes - in fact, a dog that everyone, including Frank, wishes were dead - makes his act of heroism all the more heroic. It happened in the early evening on one of the last days of this winter. Digger and his wife Gretchen were out on their customary walk along the wooded paths near their ...

Enjoy summer but plan now for back-to-school shopping

Editorial

Summer is just getting started — it officially arrived yesterday —and most families would prefer not to have to think about the start of the next school year just yet. But a little planning is important and the state is certainly thinking ahead. Gov. Mike DeWine recently announced Ohio’s sales tax holiday this year will be two full weeks in August — from midnight Aug. 1 to 11:59 p.m. Aug. 14. That expansion could make a significant difference for families looking to start off the school year as inexpensively as possible. “The timing of this year’s sales tax holiday not only ...

The dangers of summer heat on older adults

Editorial

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column was originally pubished July 1, 2023. 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 Salem Visiting Angels office have created this series of articles to keep our older population and their families informed and to offer some practical advice for meeting the challenges faced by seniors and those who care for them. While ...

SB 197: Online casino gaming would be a losing bet for Ohio

Editorial

The odds are in, and they’re not looking very pretty for impassioned efforts to expand legalized gambling in Ohio. But that’s just fine with us, thank you, as passage and enactment of Senate Bill 197 to make Ohio the eighth state in the union with lawfully regulated online casino gaming would pose a plethora of public health risks, economic uncertainties and constitutional challenges. To be sure, some may consider casinos at your fingertips a logical extension of Ohio’s continued growth in legalized gambling over the past several decades. Most of those initiatives — from state ...

Stop the Scroll Act would create a warning label requirement

Editorial

Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, has thrown his support behind an effort to keep kids safer when it comes to social media. But the Stop the Scroll Act isn’t about the kinds of online dangers some parents may be thinking. It would create a mental health warning label requirement for social media. “As more and more children and teens use social media, a warning label should be prominently displayed highlighting the potential harms of using social media platforms. The Stop the Scroll Act would help young people grasp the mental health risks that come with social media. I’ll continue to back ...

HB 3: School Bus Safety Act will create harsher penalties

Editorial

House Bill 3 made its way to the Ohio Senate after having encountered no naysayers during the House of Representatives vote June 11. It seems unlikely there will be much resistance in the state Senate, either, as the School Bus Safety Act includes some important ways to keep students and drivers safer. Most drivers know the rules regarding driving safely when school buses are on the road. Too many ignore them anyway. According to the National Safety Council, between 2013 and 2022 there were 1,082 fatalities and approximately 132,000 injuries as a result of school-bus related ...