A study by the American Journal of Public Health found that women who wear seat belts are 47 percent more likely to be injured in a car accident than are men in the same type of crash. The study found that this huge disparity owes to the way safety systems in older model cars…
Fall is the time of year known for apple picking and hayrides. What could be more fun than going on a hayride on a crisp autumn day surrounded by friends? Unfortunately, when dozens of people were injured on a hayride in Erie County recently, what seemed like a relaxing way to spend an October…
Ohio has a lot of military veterans, including a sizable number of service members who are either back home on deployment or have returned permanently from combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans who have experienced battle often suffer from a variety of lingering — sometimes permanent — stresses associated with that experience. Numerous…
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) underscored the intensity of a recent congressional debate centered on construction accident issues when he pointedly asked a colleague who fervently opposes a new OSHA proposal that would put beefed-up restrictions on residential roofers this question: “Have you ever fallen off a roof?” For years, the benchmark safety standard for…
A sure-fire way to start an impassioned debate is to broach the subject of increasing state revenues by raising taxes on alcohol sales and/or expanding the hours during which establishments with liquor licenses can sell alcoholic beverages. On the one hand, advocates will say that sizable amounts of money will flow into state coffers…
In 2005, three friends from Ohio State University took their entrepreneurial plan and started an alcohol beverage company called Phusion Projects. One of their products, an energy alcoholic drink called Four Loko, has gained considerable notoriety since then. Intense scrutiny from the FDA and officials in many states was aimed at Phusion Projects late…
The interstate highways and state roads splayed across Ohio serve as major arteries for commercial truckers transporting goods both within and beyond the state. Numerous studies and statistics indicate that the volume of Ohio truck traffic is greater than that of many other states. And, thus, so is the constant potential for, and too-often…
A current debate in Solon is centering on something not often considered by city residents, namely, this: whether the city should soon implement a sharpshooter culling program and pilot crossbow hunting program to reduce the presence of deer locally. Advocates of the idea point to statistics from the Ohio Department of Transportation (“ODOT”) indicating…
Ohio House Bill 99 bans texting while driving and will become law if it passes the Ohio Senate and is signed by Gov. John Kasich. Thirty-four other states have already enacted such legislation , based on strong and sobering empirical evidence that many thousands of fatal car accidents are caused in the United States…