NEW ALBANY, Ohio – After much political debate, Ohio’s pig farmers are thanking Gov. Mike DeWine for signing the $90.5 billion 2026-27 operating budget into law earlier this week as it will help to protect areas of vital importance to keep the state’s number one industry—agriculture—including key provisions critical to the future of the pork industry.
Recently, I was talking with someone about Ford’s wages. Older UAW workers told CEO JimFarley, “None of the young people want to work here. Jim, you pay $17 an hour, and they are so stressed.” This was from an interview with journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival recently.
I thought I knew myself pretty well, but then this old-age thing hit . . . hard. Both physically and psychologically.
Growing up in the south, July the Fourth was almost always hot. When my brother and I were very young, we’d go to the town fireworks display and watch in awe, sitting on a blanket. I remember going into my own little world, entranced by the explosions of color.
Every spring, someone in my town posts hand-drawn TURTLE CROSSING signs near the roads where turtles lay their eggs. I’d never actually seen one crossing and used to wonder why anyone bothered with these signs.
Ohioans can’t help but feel the emotional weight of political violence after last weekend’s assassination of a top Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota, and the shooting of a fellow legislator.
On June 20, 2024, my best friend in the world died. Joel Carroll was a comics artist, known and admired by many other artists.
COLUMBUS – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose issued the following statement today regarding the Ohio Senate’s passage of the biennial state operating budget:
We’re activists from different parties, and both are appalled by the violence in Los Angeles. As Senator Fetterman said, there is no excuse for the violence, and it should be condemned.
It’s a joke I’ve made almost since I saw Terminator 2. A future war with robots seems to be so one-sided, that the only sane option is welcome them with open arms, since resistance can be out-engineered by machines that can out-think humans a hundred times over.