We urge our readers to vote for Randy Morris for Athens mayor. We believe Morris is the candidate most committed to taking students into account during the decision-making process.
Editor’s Note: The 3rd Ward race presents an interesting dilemma for our editorial board. One candidate, R.J. Sumney, serves as our paper’s business manager. The other candidate, Michele Papai, is the mother of Will Drabold, one of our City Staff reporters. Because of those clear conflicts, we’ve chosen not to issue an endorsement in this race; however, we did meet with both candidates and below are excerpts from those meetings.
Bill Bias and Nancy Bain, two of Athens City Council’s most experienced members, will be retiring at the end of the current term. That means next year’s City Council will be a younger, relatively inexperienced one: however, this is not a bad thing. We think this new Council will be able to foster new ideas, new leadership styles and will strive to work well together.
The Post editorial board has taken the following positions on state Issues 1, 2 and 3.
Ohio is extremely lucky to be graced with some of Mother Nature’s finest attributes for natural resources. We have hills for wind turbines, flat land to farm and cultivate and rivers for hydroelectric power. Now, one more way of extracting Ohio’s resources is creeping closer and closer to Athens — hydraulic fracturing.
Saturday is Athens’ notorious Halloween block party, and, as I’ve made my custom during each of the last four years, I have absolutely no idea what my costume will be.
Ohio University students have gone viral again, and it’s not due to the No. 1 party-school reputation or the Marching 110 performing “Party Rock Anthem.” This time, it’s because a student group created a campaign to tackle racial discrimination during Halloween.
Student Senate President Kyle Triplett put it best: We’ve (seemingly) crossed the bridge.
Two weeks ago, we asked students to be more proactive with sexual assault programs on our campus. Yesterday, Student Senate’s public relations team launched its social media campaign “Lifelines to Safety” to increase sexual assault awareness using YouTube videos and Twitter.
Senate Bill 5 protesters left in a huff during yesterday’s Student Senate meeting — and they had every reason to do so.
Two years ago, students would rather fight off the flu on their own than even think about taking a step into Hudson Health Center. Wait times were atrocious, diagnoses were questionable and some of the medical examination tables looked like they were nearly a hundred years old — because they were. Many students figured it was more likely they’d walk out of Hudson sicker than when they arrived.
Ohio University offers two strong scholarship programs: the Urban Scholarship and the Appalachian Scholarship. Both reach out to students who might not consider OU as a choice for college or might not have the opportunity to attend college.
Despite campus programs and advocacy, sexual assault continues to plague this campus.
For the first time this year, I missed a Student Senate meeting this past Wednesday night.
Take a look at your calendar. This is the last weekend of September. In two weekends, it’s Homecoming and in another two weekends it’s Halloween. Upcoming weekends with warm weather are few and far between.
Yesterday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson rallied Ohio University students and Athens residents alike. But one topic remained a hot issue and a crowd pleaser to most — student-loan forgiveness.
It’s been a long time coming. After 17 years and three presidential administrations, the flawed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was repealed Tuesday.
The last time we weighed in on Ohio University’s decision to provide $250,000 in funding for a new fire truck we focused some of our criticism on the uncertainty as to where the money would come from.
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