Athens Ohio Letters Desk Contact Details
Athens Messenger header provides address Stressenger Route 33 North and Johnson Road Athens Ohio 45701 with phone 740 592 6612 and email for letters to the editor info athensmessenger com naming Monica Nieporte president Joe Higgins editor Wendy Van Sickle design editor Jeff Bunch advertising director Ike Weiss production manager
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Johnson Road
Athens
Ohio
Athensmessenger
Monica Nieporte
Joe Higgins
Higgins
Wendy van Sickle
Jeff Bunch
Ike Weiss
EPA draft finds fracking ties to some water issues in Ohio
The EPA notes isolated contamination cases like Bainbridge Township but finds no evidence of widespread drinking water harm from hydraulic fracturing. The report highlights 30,000 wells drilled yearly across 25 states, using up to a million gallons of water per well and mixing with over 1000 chemicals, urging rigorous inspections and funding for Ohio regulators.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ohio
Bainbridge Township
Geauga County
EPA
Bainbridge
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Danger
Personal essay reflects on hitchhiking's decline and lasting mystique. The author recalls decades of rides across New Jersey Pennsylvania and Europe while weighing safety versus freedom. He challenges claims of safety and laments lost adventure amid modern caution.
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Vox
Talking Points Memo
the Week
Ginger Strand
Ryan Cooper
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
East Coast
Chicago
Sandwiches and the non-compete tale in fast food history
An op-ed style piece mocks a Jimmy John's non compete clause for workers, contrasts it with Montagu's sandwich origin and other foods, cites a Huffington Post report and Sen. Al Franken’s critique, and questions corporate motives while joking about penguin salad and lunch. The narrator seeks clarification from Jimmy John’s and ends with a lunch tease.
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John Montagu
Earl of
Sandwich
Montagu
Dagwood Bumstead
Jimmy John’s
Huffington Post
Fox
Subway
al Franken
Franken
European tour flops mark candidate humor over policy
The piece riffs on U S presidential hopefuls abroad, noting the need for photo ops and safe speeches while Europeans watch the world tour with bemused curiosity. It highlights Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Rick Perry, Santorum, Cruz, Paul, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, Graham, Carson, and Pataki as attractively moneyed yet impractical on real policy.
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Washington
White House
Israel
Bonn
Court of St James
Tokyo
Paris
Mitt Romney
London
Florida
Jeb Bush
Europe
Berlin Wall
Bush
George W. Bush
Vladimir Putin
Iran
Iraq
Syria
U.S
Hillary Clinton
Texas
Rick Perry
Pennsylvania
Rick Santorum
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Kentucky
Marco Rubio
Cuba
Rubio
Wisconsin
Scott Walker
Walker
Carly Fiorina
Hewlett-Packard
South Carolina
Lindsey Graham
Ben Carson
New York
George Pataki
National Geographic Society
Putin
Moldova
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