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Wednesday, May 8,2013
Wearing Thin

Let Farmers Market get back to core function, local food

By Terry Smith
It's three weeks since my column suggesting that the Athens Farmers Market board say adios to The Market on State and move somewhere else, in reaction to the mall owners' new directive banning political advocacy at the twice-weekly open-air market.
Wednesday, April 24,2013
Wearing Thin

Alex history teacher and taxpayers getting a raw deal

By Terry Smith
Let's hope that the Ohio Department of Education examiner who heard the case against an Athens area high-school history teacher earlier this month will recommend dismissal of complaints against the teacher for improper "touching" in the classroom.
Wednesday, April 17,2013
Wearing Thin

If I were market, I’d move rather than obey political ban

By Terry Smith
The other day, Brent Hayes and Tom Parfitt, owners of the old University Mall (now The Market on State) told the Athens Farmers Market that they don't want any more politicking or advocacy at the market, which for much of the year takes place twice a week in the mall's front parking lot.
Wednesday, April 10,2013
Wearing Thin

Term limits don’t work; nyah, nyah, nyah, I told you so!

21 years after Ohio voters OKed them 2-1, the apple has lost its luster

By Terry Smith
Is it a sign of defective character to want to climb atop the tallest building and scream, "I told you so!!" when events and history confirms you were correct about an important matter?
Wednesday, April 3,2013
Wearing Thin

New student fest enforcement policy a big success... so far

By Terry Smith
The arson-caused house fire that ultimately led Athens and its police department to aggressively shut down Palmer Fest on April 28 of last year also may have lit a fuse on the end of violent and destructive block parties in Athens' student neighborhoods.
Wednesday, March 27,2013
Wearing Thin

If OU won’t answer the easy questions, what about the hard ones?

By Terry Smith
A running theme to criticism of Ohio University's management of the Ridges has been a lack of community involvement and openness to the public and news media. That's why it's so fit
Wednesday, March 20,2013
Wearing Thin

Don’t cry crocodile tears for Steubenville teen rapists

By Terry Smith
While I've got mixed emotions about the Steubenville teen rape case, I don't harbor much sympathy for the two male teens convicted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female peer during a series of drunken parties last August.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
Wearing Thin

Don’t ever get as loaded as questions in tea party poll

By Terry Smith
When I saw the headline on the news release, my jaw dropped, and in the next moment, I was calling my Canadian in-laws to ask if they had any extra room for my wife and me.
Wednesday, March 6,2013
Wearing Thin

As an honorary friend of the Ridges, here’s my 2 cents

Ridges building demolition has started

By Terry Smith
In the photo with this story, a contractor for Ohio University works at tearing down Building 26 at the Ridges. The decision to tear down the old "T.B. ward" has been the focus of ample controversy in Athens, but even so the university started the demolition work without making any public announcement, other than a general timetable of the next "couple weeks." This column was written before the work started earlier this week.
Sunday, February 24,2013
Wearing Thin

Fracking ban fine for Athens but reckless and illegal otherwise

By Terry Smith
There seems to be ample confusion about the local Bill of Rights Committee's proposal to ban deep-shale drilling and related activities. The confusion, to a great extent, results from the wording of the proposed ordinance itself, but also from statements by its proponents.
 
 
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