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    Opinions Rory Ryan 10 June 2025

    Media bias proves costly

    When someone like Morning Doofus or Fake Trapper insists that 2024 Joe Biden was the sharpest Joe Biden they've ever witnessed, they know full well they are lying to their audience. Still, they are gambling that their audience (those few believers) is willfully ignorant and easily led astray all the way to the ballot box. I suspect they often laugh about the extensive gullibility of their own audience. 
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 27 May 2025
    Thoughts on Memorial Day, and a Tranquility Community Church thank-you
    This evening, as I am apt to do on Memorial Day, I took a ride not far from home to the Tranquility Community Church and Cemetery in Adams County, where my father has been resting since May 1989, and where I ultimately will rest nearby. The cemetery couldn't have looked better.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 4 May 2025
    After four decades, Journalism finally pays off
    After 46 years consecutive years in the printing business – most of it in something some folks call journalism – Journalism finally paid off.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 2 April 2025
    Just foolin': It's an April 1 column
    Did you ever notice that a cold Shores Light Lager really tastes better after a $30 million lawsuit against you has been rejected in federal court? After being falsely accused of that which I did not do, it's good to see justice prevail. Vexatious, indeed.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 7 March 2025
    'Green' Party? No thanks
    House Speaker Mike Johnson walks into a bar with two green members of Congress. The bartender takes their order and asks, "Really? Both parties have to have a green nut in the House of Representatives?"
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 26 February 2025
    The uproar over DOGE request is hilarious
    "The vast majority of elected officials really have no idea," McGovern said. "They pass rules and regulations that sound good and are meant to serve a good purpose, but they rarely take into account the consequences of the regulations they pass or how they’ll impact how companies act."
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 5 February 2025
    I heard I was in town – and retired
    This week, I was congratulated on my "recent retirement." Only one problem: I have not retired and have no plans to do so. But after 45 consecutive years in the print industry – and in damned near every capacity at one time or another – the thought has crossed my mind, as former West Union newspaperman Herb Lax used to say.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 19 January 2025
    Happy 50th anniversary, Southern State Community College
    Congratulations, Dr. Roades, the SSCC Board of Trustees and the college's students, faculty, staff and community supporters. Your work has had a very positive impact on the southern Ohio counties you have served for the last 50 years. 
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 11 January 2025
    Good riddance to the Joe and Kamala Show
    Barack Obama famously said, "Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to screw things up." Truer words were never spoken. Good riddance to four years of incompetence.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 10 December 2024
    Remembering the Christmas Eve 2004 ice storm
    As we approach Christmas 2024, let us pause and remember a rather eventful Christmas 20 years ago this month. The Ohio Valley was hit with a massive snowstorm – and an ice storm for a few "lucky" counties – that occurred Dec. 23-24, 2004. 
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 27 November 2024
    Sometimes, I forget to give thanks
    I wish all of our readers a very happy Thanksgiving. And I hope those contributing writers – including those I've not named – know that we appreciate them. Keep those stories coming.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 22 November 2024
    Medicine, science, politics and money
    Medicine, science and politics today are experiencing suffering reputations. It is kind of funny.  
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 11 November 2024
    No laughing matter
    The task ahead is Herculean. We have allies at war and allies facing potential war. We have a national debt of $36 trillion. We have runaway government spending. We have a wide-open border. It's time to end the bickering and do the work you are elected – and paid handsomely – to do. Fix it.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 22 October 2024
    Chimus Transportation: It ain't me, Babe (or G-Men)
    I'm sure the millions of good folks working for the federal government will soon get to the bottom of this. Who knows? Maybe Chimus Transportation, Inc. will take the high road and resolve its address issue(s).
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 8 October 2024
    Highland County voters: It's time to renew the Children Services levy
    It's time to pass this much-needed levy. If there is sufficient charity in Highland County – and I know from experience there is – this levy will pass on Nov. 5. Early voting for the Tuesday, Nov. 5 general election begins Tuesday, Oct. 8. Tomorrow. Please vote.
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 1 October 2024
    Pete Rose: 1941-2024, a Hall of Famer for sure – if it evens matters now
    Thanks to my second cousin Jeff McCoy, who recently passed away, I was able to meet Pete at Hillsboro High School after a charity basketball game when I was 9 or 10. Years later, I met Pete again.
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