Columns/Editorials

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

When I have questions about or frustrations with our American system – what’s right, what’s wrong and how we should think about operating as good citizens – I turn to reading about the past. And as mu...

Dan Gable, former wrestling coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes had this saying he framed: “The Longer Longer.” His premise was that when things go well they continue to go well or when they go badly they cont...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

If your son or daughter went trick or treating at Halloween and dumped the neighbor’s entire goodie bowl in their bucket, most people would say that is too much. The Marysville Schools are asking for ...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

This weekend we spring forward. Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday. “Daylight saving time, or DST, is the period of the year when clocks are moved one hour ahead,” according to information f...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Most of us are pretty familiar with the cost of our go-to meal before we even pull into a drive-thru. Some recent announcements from Wendy’s threw that certainty into question. Leaders at the fast foo...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

This week we had to make a late pivot on our topic for the Journal-Tribune Podcast and landed on a topic about old school chain restaurants. The idea came after we learned reporter Michael Williamson ...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Last fall, Best Buy announced it would start slowly phasing out the selling of DVDs and Blu-rays. Then, last month, the process officially began and hard copies of movies started disappearing from sto...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

I am about to take you, dear reader, down a long rabbit hole so stick with me. Earlier this week the city announced that Marysville had been named on a list of friendly towns in Ohio. While I generall...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

New Marysville City Council President/Mayor Donald Boerger told many residents exactly what they wanted to hear during the second meeting of 2024. “No longer will developers use valuable land while ou...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Comedian Pete Holmes does a bit about how the internet has eliminated the human experience of simply not knowing the answer to a question. He details that in days gone by if a question popped into you...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

I keep seeing news stories about the three university presidents and the fallout from their testimony on antisemitism last month. The continuous arguing in the news from each side of the political ais...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

My wife is a teacher. Each new year when the teachers at her building return from the Christmas holiday, they share a word of the year. Each teacher offers a word they intend to make theirs during the...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

The first story I ever wrote at the Journal-Tribune was a yearend story. As an intern in the winter of 1990/91, I was told to compile a list of potential top local stories for 1990, so that the newsro...

Growth will pay for itself, right? That’s what Marysville residents continue to hear from elected officials, but instead what has resulted is higher tax bills. We remember 20 years ago when the area f...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

We’re in the thick of the holiday season, but for my family, December is full of celebrations from the jump. We have four birthdays by the ninth (two of which are on the same day) and shortly after, w...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

As part of his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein developed the idea of gravitational time dilation, essentially theorizing that the way time is perceived is directly impacted by gravitational pull...