We don’t grow much coffee within the United States. Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico are really capable of it and even if we started up tomorrow, American consumers demand so much that we would still need to import it. Tariffs will cause the price of coffee to go up. Profit margins are so low in ...
This trade war with Canada is not the first. Forty-five years ago, Maine potato farmers piled rotten potatoes at their state’s borders with New Brunswick. Blocking nine crossings, the Mainers accused Canada of unfairly subsidizing its potato growers, thus driving down the prices they could ...
It doesn’t take long at all for a single case of the measles to turn into a genuine outbreak. In Ohio, the number of cases in Ashtabula County alone had grown to 11 by the end of last week. There were seven in Knox County and one each in Allen and Holmes counties. It takes even less time, ...
DEAR EDITOR: In our recent world of chaos, I am compelled to write this plea to save the life of our libraries across the state of Ohio. It has come to my attention that the Ohio House Legislature intends to reduce major funding to the valued, rich and intellectual growth of our communities ...
DEAR EDITOR: With both of Ohio’s new U.S. senators — Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted — focused on bringing jobs and innovation to Northeast Ohio, there’s no better time to make a bold proposal: The United States Space Force’s service academy should be built right here in the ...
The Trump administration is using Humpty Dumpty rules to justify its new tariffs. The anthropomorphic egg famously said in the Lewis Carroll novel “Through the Looking-Glass,” “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” For the Trump team, ...