I’m a 75-year-old steelworker, with real mobility problems from decades of hard work, especially as a steelworker. I’m living on a good, United Steel Workers (USW) negotiated pension, like thousands of my fellow steelworkers, thanks to Sherrod Brown. I worked at Lorain Works, USX, in Lorain,…

I’ve watched the developing protests around our nation, here in Columbus,with a feeling that some things just haven't changed.Fifty-four years ago I’d gotten off work, was at the Neil Avenue entrance to OSU,watching a small, peaceful, student protest develop. Someone for a BlackStudent Union had…

No period of our history has had more books written about it than the US Civil War. However, the diplomatic struggle, international aspects of this fight, has not been included. That gap in our historic record has now been magnificently filled by Dan Doyle’s A Cause of All Nations (2015, Basic…

When I hired into the steel mill, Lorain Works, US Steel, in 1970, it was a monstrous place, smoking, churning out tons of steel, with thousands of workers going in and out almost constantly. Around 9,000 workers they said.The town of Lorain was/is an old mill town, with more bars than churches and…