This has been a difficult week for me, as tomorrow (Friday) will be my last day working fulltime for The Athens NEWS. This weekend, I am packing up my apartment and shipping off to Harrisonburg, Virginia, to move in with my partner.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, delivered this floor statement on women’s health before the U.S. Senate on the evening of May 14.
Some Ohio University students earlier this week were caught in the act of saying the n-word in a Snapchat video that was later shared on Twitter. The young woman identified in the video, who has since deleted her Twitter profile, apparently has received a significant amount of backlash from …
Last Wednesday Donald Trump said: “It should be announced, probably some time next week, that we will have 100 percent of the (ISIS) caliphate.” Well, it is next week now, and by the weekend Trump will probably have made exactly that announcement. He will be right, too: ISIS as a major threa…
My first assignment as an Ohio University student intern in the Athens Messenger’s newsroom was to write an article about the Starlight Ball.
After publishing an endorsement for Jay Edwards in the Oct. 29 issue of The Athens NEWS, our staff has received ample criticism from readers on Facebook who argue that the endorsement flies in the face of women’s rights.
After The New York Times published an opinion piece written by an unnamed “senior administration official” who claimed to be part of an anti-Trump coalition in the white house, debate surrounding the idea of unnamed or “anonymous” sources surged on social media. Journalists have talked and t…
Editor’s note: The Athens NEWS is participating in a national campaign spearheaded by The Boston Globe to respond forcefully to President Donald Trump’s continued attacks on the free press, including his recent characterization of journalists as “real enemies of the people.” We are among 350…
A young boy finds a tree full of bright red apples near his home. Hungry, he picks one and eats it, then grabs another to bring his mother. When he makes it back to his house, he shows his mother the apple. “No thanks,” she says. “I prefer red apples.”
An “Athens Voice” comment in the June 7 issue of The Athens NEWS took a shot at the free-lunch program in public schools: “I’m still aghast that the schools FEED students. I grew up dirt poor, with no indoor plumbing or running water, but my mom still managed to send me to school with a sand…
Hey you! Do you love kitties, and want to help them?
The results of a new economic impact study demonstrate Ohio University’s significant positive impact on the state, region and Athens community.
The extraordinary thing is that there is no Plan B. If Donald Trump’s re-imposition of American sanctions on Iran does not cause President Hassan Rouhani’s government to buckle at once (which is almost unimaginable), there is nothing else he can do short of going to war with the country. And…
History tells us that no matter what, people are rarely ever happy when a verdict is rendered in a rape or sexual-assault trial, regardless of what that verdict is, typically because someone declares the whole ordeal an injustice, either for the accused or the alleged victim. The real injust…
This past Friday, nearly 100 Athens High School students left the school building. Seventeen minutes later, they walked back inside.
