Local Opinion

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column by Brown County Schools Superintendent Emily Tracy was first presented in her speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Eagle Manufacturing on April 12.

While the president’s budget details a plan to honor our country’s sacred obligation to care for America’s veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors, the proposal to cut a broad range of critical programs by 22% would threaten critical services for veterans — both at VA and across the federal government.

The nymph ticks are coming out from hiding and they are hungry!

Can you read this? “Hab SoSlI Otch!”

Several years ago, I finished a nice meal at one of my favorite restaurants and settled up with the waitress, someone new to the place.

ChamberFest Brown County will hold a Benefit Concert, 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, Helen Haddad Hall, 315 Franklin Street in Columbus.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are markers of broader problems in the banking sector more generally. To be able to understand what is happening and how it may develop in the months ahead requires some institutional background on banks and some history on bank failures.

Jeff Smulyan delivered the line almost as a throwaway, but it had a sting.

I must hang around with the wrong people. Every time I think I have made up my mind on an issue, someone challenges that conclusion. Even worse is when the challenge is to my premises.

Thanks to community for Soup Bowl support