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This Ohio business is one to cheer on

Ohio’s diversifying economy includes a new addition that can help tackle challenges ranging from environmental concerns to avoiding dependence on foreign companies. Nth Cycle in Fairfield will extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material to reduce reliance on open pit mining, avoid those same materials being dumped in landfills and avoid having to send the materials overseas for refining. Almost all of us are dependent on materials such as nickel and cobalt because of our use of lithium ion batteries. Nth Cycle builds systems that yield nickel and cobalt from a form of shredded ...

Is ‘The Silicon Heartland’ taking a shot to the gut?

It’s getting harder and harder to be excited about new economic development announcements in Ohio, as the ones already on the table seem to be dropping off at an alarming rate. Intel’s One Ohio project may now be even closer to that edge. According to a report by WCMH, there are rumbles that Intel may be considering how to handle its computer chip manufacturing arm, as part of cost-cutting efforts. Intel has already said it is planning to lay off 15% of its global workforce, suspend its stock dividends program — and the company reported $1.6 billion in losses during its July ...

Drunk driving results in more senseless deaths

They were brothers, sons, husbands and fathers, and they are gone far too soon because someone apparently decided to drink and drive. Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matt should have stood with their sister Katie at her wedding Friday in Philadelphia. Instead, what was supposed to be a joyful weekend for the Gaudreau family became the beginning of an unimaginable tragedy that has left the family grief-stricken and shattered. A suspected drunken driver ran down the Gaudreau brothers from behind — killing both of them — as they rode bicycles not far from the family home in Oldmans ...

Life expectancies in Ohio among shortest in nation

For many Ohio residents, our choice to live here comes down to it simply being home. We’re here because we want to live here. But data released recently by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Ohio residents are not living as long as residents of most other states. Ohio has the 12th shortest life expectancy in the country, based on 2021 data. Here the average lifespan is 74.5 years (77.5 years for women and 71.7 years for men). The national average is 76.4 years (79.3 for women and 73.5 for men). So what is shortening our lives, here in this state we love? Well, ...

Ohio’s elected officials need to serve us, not themselves

Ohio lawmakers and other elected officials have a habit of trying to circumvent the will of the people, no matter how loudly Ohioans have spoken. Another recent example comes in the collection of state laws that combine to create a 24-hour waiting period for abortions in the state. Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David C. Young has rightly issued a temporary block on those laws, pointing to the decision by voters in 2023 to approve a constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to the procedure. Young went so far as to remind lawmakers the language of 2023’s Issue 1 was “clear ...

Don’t be an at-risk driver, don’t become a statistic

Most people understand what at-risk drivers — those intoxicated from alcohol or drugs or distracted by hand-held devices — pose to the those driving along innocently, responsibly and intently aware of surroundings who, nevertheless, gets creamed by a drunk, buzzed or distracted driver. For a quick yet impactful read, visit the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s site (https://statepatrol.ohio.gov/). So far statewide, the OSHP registered 9,723 OVI enforcements, 39,832 seat belt violations — why anyone would not use a seat belt is way, way beyond us — 18,004 distracted driving ...