In his recent column (“Biden’s impossible dream: Any car you want as long as it’s an EV”), George Will criticizes the use of government regulation on tailpipe emissions to reduce the carbon pollution that is the main cause of climate change. He portrays electric vehicles, or EVs, as impractical and incapable of meeting our transportation needs.
Two stories in the news in the last two weeks were, on the surface, about different topics. But break the surface and they were the same topic: preparing young children for elementary school.
The recent disclosure that Lt. Gov. Jon Husted’s 2018 abortive campaign for governor benefited from a hidden $1 million expenditure by FirstEnergy should spark some action by the General Assembly to force more disclosure of hidden campaign spending.
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. — In those black-and-white days, so long ago, my high school classmates Cindy Smith, Cheryl Gordon, and Jan Schwartz were popover girls, circulating through the General Glover House Restaurant dining room with a basket of hot, light, and buttery rolls. So was Susan Harris, whose younger brother — another classmate, Dougie Harris — was a busboy. Jeff Lunt, a year ahead of us, marinated the mushrooms, steamed the corn, and prepared the garlic bread. Sometimes on late nights, the town police would drive him home.
James Donald Carleski, a longtime Owens-Illinois chemist who continued to work in his field in retirement, died Monday at the Rosary Care Center in Sylvania. He was 94 years old.
Age is more than a number. It could be a tally of decades of wisdom and experience.
The Toledo Walleye won 5-2 against the Kalamazoo Wings to make it 2-0 in the playoff series, Saturday, April 20, at the Huntington Center in Toledo.
The Toledo Walleye vastly outshot Kalamazoo and Sam Craggs tallied a hat trick in Game 2 of the ECHL Central Division semifinals as they downed the Wings 5-2 to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
CLEVELAND — Josh Naylor hit a two-run homer and celebrated by striking himself on the helmet with his bat, providing the Cleveland Guardians with the go-ahead run in a 6-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday night.
NEW YORK — A lot of work goes into making a household run smoothly, and the thread that runs through all the labor is money. It’s money that makes it possible to fix a broken appliance, enroll the kids in summer camp and save up to replace the aging car. The mental load of money can be heavy. It’s made up of those endless invisible tasks we engage in, and the future tasks we lie awake at night thinking about.
DALLAS — The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country.
ANN ARBOR — Michigan had its spring football game Saturday, just as Ohio State did the week before.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Toledo Mud Hens scored seven runs in the final three innings to pull away from the Rochester Red Wings for a 9-5 victory on Saturday at Innovative Field.
Two days after taking its first league loss of the softball season, Perrysburg bounced back impressively on Saturday, banging out 12 hits in an 11-3 Northern Lakes League crossover victory against visiting Springfield.
The scratch on this year’s Record Store Day was the chilly weather, but the group of four who showed up at 5 a.m. outside of Culture Clash Records with their own propane heater came prepared to deal with the cold.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The name Marcus Blaze was well known within Ohio wrestling circles and that subset of fans who pay attention to age group wrestlers.
MINNEAPOLIS — Bailey Ober pitched six solid innings, and the Minnesota Twins stopped a five-game slide by edging the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Saturday.
CLEVELAND — Donovan Mitchell and the Cavaliers spent the week insisting they were better prepared for this year's playoffs.