EDITORIAL
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Sherrod Brown: Trick after trick to pay people less
“If even a global pandemic will not get corporations to rethink their exploitative business model, it’s time to stop letting them run the economy.” By: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown In the early months of this pandemic, as businesses and feel-good news stories hailed America’s workers as the heroes of our time, I published an open letter to…
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Where was commitment when 73% to 81% of animals entering the shelter left through the back door in a body bag?
by Rick Barron The “commitment” to no-kill that has been repeated from the Clermont County Commissioners Office is likely more a political statement than one of care and concern for the animals in their care. Where was their commitment in 2012 and before when 73% to 81% of animals entering the shelter left through the…
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Bless and God be with all the Sandy Hook families today
by Stefanie Badders Laufersweiler Eight years ago on this day, while the Sandy Hook shooting was happening, I helped my daughter Amy and her third-grade classmates build gingerbread houses in the school cafeteria. Then two years later it was my son Paul’s turn to build gingerbread houses with his fellow students, and once again I…
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Robert Newman: Eviction courts are terrifying, heartbreaking places now
by Robert Newman The most terrifying places these days are the eviction courts in Hamilton and Butler counties. Go see them in the Butler County Government Building in Hamilton, and in Jail Building (Justice Center), Room B, 1000 Sycamore St. in Cincinnati. You will see, as I did, single mothers of small children pleading vainly…
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An open letter to the ENTIRE Loveland City School District Community
This last year has been filled with divisiveness within our community. Clearly the failed levy issues from last November and this past March fractured trust and created a confidence challenge to the leadership of the School District and Board of Education. We accept responsibility for putting an ultimately massively unpopular proposal up for vote. In…
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A Tribute to Coach Darnell Parker and his Loving Tigers
Loveland, Ohio – It has been a sad week for the Loveland High School Tiger Family as Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Darnell Parker, announced that he has been diagnosed with Colon and Liver Cancer. Coach Parker made the devastating announcement over Twitter on October 29th and almost immediately the Loveland community rallied together to root…
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Juliet Tissot: Take the time to think about how devastating the current leadership has been to the standing of LCSD
by Juliet Tissot On Thursday, November 5th, the Loveland City School board will go into executive session to discuss the evaluations of the Superintendent and Treasurer of the school district. The evaluation process needs to be completed before discussion of contract renewal can take place. The contracts for both the Superintendent and Treasurer are up…
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Lorenz issues statement as Board prepares to evaluate Superintendent and Treasurer
by Dr. Kathryn Lorenz I am an individual school board member in Loveland and am speaking as such. I believe our world is full of wonderful people trying to navigate the dangerous territory of a global pandemic. I believe our country is full of great people trying to determine the course of our political landscape…
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The divided reality of coronavirus
by Marty Schladen Marty Schladen has been a reporter for decades, working in Indiana, Texas and other places before returning to his native Ohio to work at The Columbus Dispatch in 2017. He’s won state and national journalism awards for investigations into utility regulation, public corruption, the environment, prescription drug spending and other matters. Ohioans…
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As Loveland High to remain in hybrid learning District fails to provide full data
by David Miller Loveland, Ohio– Yesterday, the Loveland School District described their newsletter that was issued at 4:34 PM as an “Urgent LHS Schedule Update”. In the release, they announced that Loveland High School will remain on the current hybrid learning model through Friday, November 6. The students were scheduled to go to 5-day in-person…
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