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Aerial view of the train derailment wreckage in East Palestine. (Screenshot from NTSB B-roll recorded Feb. 5, 2023)

What Norfolk Southern’s accident reports say about the company and industry

BY: - February 27, 2023

Norfolk Southern has seen 163.6 derailments and 2.9 hazardous material releases per year on average, according to federal data.

COMMENTARY

LGBTQ kids need protection from bullies and violence, not adults targeting and bullying them too

BY: - January 26, 2023

LGBTQ people and our allies have to be constantly vocal and vigilant in standing up against the bullies. We are funnier, smarter, and stronger than them.

COMMENTARY
Sculpture of dying Shawnee chief Tecumseh by Ferdinand Pettrich. Photo from the National Portrait Gallery.

Tecumseh, the war for the Northwest Territory, and how it changed the nation | Opinion

BY: - October 7, 2022

The defeat and destruction of the Erie led to Ohio country becoming devoid of many significant, permanent Indigenous inhabitants.

Medical staff tend to a COVID-19 patient. Courtesy of University Hospitals

Study: More Republicans than Democrats likely died of COVID-19

BY: - October 5, 2022

Research shows that there were 14,146 vaccine-preventable deaths in Pennsylvania.

COMMENTARY

Ohio GOP’s attempted erasure of a 10-year-old rape victim is sick and disturbed | Opinion

BY: - July 15, 2022

This is a matter of basic human decency, good faith and sensitivity on the most fundamental level of society.

COMMENTARY
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A Republic, if we can keep it: It’s time for renewed, relentless action | David DeWitt

BY: - July 4, 2022

This Fourth of July, I will not be made despondent by the malicious designs of traitors and tyrants. I will be celebrating the unfolding of progress paid for in blood by patriots.

COMMENTARY

We have the tools to build an extraordinary civilization. We ought to use them | David DeWitt

BY: - May 1, 2022

We must cleanse the toxins in the bloodstream of America's body politic, and move toward a vision of something equitable, just, verdant, and prosperous for all of us.

Ohio Medicaid contractor, Aetna, accused of denying kids care in Pa.

BY: - October 28, 2021

Company wrongly claimed obstetricians, dead docs were in its kids’ network, suit says