Ed Puskas

Trumbull County needs more than one hospital

A popular meme suggests that you should enjoy your 20s, 30s and 40s because once you hit your 50s, your body’s “check engine” light is sure to come on when you least expect it. I can confirm that. I managed to enter my sixth decade on this rock without ever spending a night in the hospital … at least not as a patient. But in January 2020, I found myself in the emergency room at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital with a raging case of double pneumonia. The saga began one Thursday at the word factory where I worked at the time. I began to feel lousy that morning and kept ...

Election coverage: A news cycle that never ends

I once sat across a desk from two newspaper editors who were interviewing me for a news reporting position. I was more than familiar with the newspaper. I’d grown up reading it and spent the first few years of my career as a sportswriter there. That was clearly the hook that got me the ...

These are not our fathers’ Cleveland Browns

Maybe it’s because sports ceased to be the focus of my work about five years ago, but the older I get, the less eager I am about playing Charlie Brown to Jimmy Haslam’s Lucy Van Pelt when football season rolls around. For years — even before Haslam bought the team — I’d convince ...

Wide awake: A dream becomes reality in the Valley

I’m not a dream interpreter and I don’t play one on TV. Like a lot of people, I have dreams that leave me utterly baffled. Why would Hillary Clinton want to visit my humble abode? No idea. But an entire dream sequence was about getting the place ready for a campaign stop for Bill’s ...