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Please Get Vaccinated

Editorials

Have you gotten your annual flu or COVID-19 shots yet this season? It’s a good idea, both because it protects you and your families AND because it helps protect those in more vulnerable populations. For many of us, getting those two protections has become simply part of the fall routine — and rightly so. Similarly, for most families, making sure everyone is up to date on other vaccinations, such as against measles, is an important item to check off the list. An alarmingly increasing number of people are failing to take that step, however, and Ohio’s third measles outbreak of ...

Cautious Optimism In Ohio

Editorials

It’s easy to understand why Honda was reluctant to confirm reports out of Japan that it is planning to build a $2.5 billion hybrid vehicle plant in Ohio. Though the Nikkei Business Daily said the company is in final preparations to expand its manufacturing footprint in the Buckeye State, a Honda spokesman told Reuters “No decisions have been made at this stage regarding a new plant in the U.S.” At the same time, SK hynix is reportedly in talks with Intel about making memory chips in the U.S. for the first time with what MarketBeat called Intel’s “long-delayed ‘Ohio One’ ...

Solve Healthcare Worker Shortage In W.Va.

Editorials

Among the projects under West Virginia’s Rural Health Transformation Program is Mountain State Care Force, which is meant to address the shortage of healthcare workers in many of our communities. This week, the initiative awarded $201,403 to the WVU Medicine Center for Nursing Education, where it is expected to increase capacity for approximately 100 additional nursing students each year and increase access to nursing education for students from “rural and Health Professional Shortage Area communities, including Hancock, Ohio, Marshall, Tyler and Wetzel counties,” according to a ...

Address Ohio County 911's Staffing Issues

Editorials

The most important voice an Ohio County resident may ever hear is that of a stranger. It might come in the middle of the night, when a loved one stops breathing. It might come after a terrible crash, when someone is trapped inside a vehicle. Or it might come when a parent discovers a child is missing. It is the dispatcher’s voice on the other end of a 911 call. This past week, Ohio County residents learned that the people responsible for answering those calls are working through a significant staffing shortage. Ohio County 911 Director Rick Pritt told county commissioners that ...

A Family That Cares

Editorials

The Contraguerro family and their company, Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration, once again showed their love and devotion to the Ohio Valley community with a $150,000 gift to the soon-to-be-built WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Robert Sonneborn Family Pediatric Outpatient Center on the campus of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital. That donation will sponsor the center’s new reception area. And that’s far from the first gift the Contraguerros and Panhandle have made to WVU Medicine or the Ohio Valley at large. The family and the company long have been champions of the community, ...

Vivek Ramaswamy: East Palestine Deserves The Truth — I'll Fight To Bring It To Light

Local Columns

It’s been over three years since a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, and officials burned vinyl chloride in plumes over a village of fewer than 5,000 people. In February 2023, this community on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border was the subject of international news and thrust to the center of American politics. Media and political figures arrived when the spotlight was on. When the cameras left, the town learned what happens when no one is watching. In 2024, class-action attorneys negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern that required residents to waive ...