The city of Bellevue is looking in every direction to save money and its latest move is to consider eliminating the city's pension pickup for its non-union employees. If approved, this move would end the city's contribution of 10 percent of each employee's salary into a pension fund for all of its supervisors and elected and appointed officials.

In the past, we have seen many services cut, along with a reduction in our police and fire departments. If you consider roughly 75 percent is going to the schools, the rest is a real deal. Look at the pie chart on your taxes. Police protection, fire, parks, sewage, water, street and snow removal: a deal at 25 percent. Our problem is with the schools and I don't mean the teachers.

By RICHARD CORDRAY, Ohio Attorney General I am responding to Tony Yankel's recent opinion piece (Opinion page, April 17) about the Ohio Supreme Court case that will determine the precise boundaries of Lake Erie.

NORWALK Huron County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 65-year-old Norwalk woman after she allegedly assaulted her daughter with a coffee cup. Shirley K. Cozart, 65, 4400 block Gibbs Road, Norwalk was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assault Saturday evening after officials say she attacked her daughter and her son-in-law who live with her.

SANDUSKY A drinking party on Hayes Avenue got out of hand late Monday night when Tyson J. Conway, 25, apparently got into an argument about gangs, police said. Conway, 200 block Sheffield Way, ended up being stabbed three times by a kitchen knife in his chest and on his right hand.

It's not about protecting the river or protecting property rights. Those are just the symptoms. It's about trust. As in, people just don't trust the government anymore.

We own a small construction company. We have worked hard in order to buy all of our equipment. On a recent morning, when my husband went to work, he found out that his trailer had been broken into and about $3,000 worth of equipment was stolen.

Recently I had the opportunity to serve on a jury in Ottawa County Municipal Court. The presiding judge was Fritz Hany. When I was c

Tree City USA? Are you kidding me? Has anyone of the Tree City commission been down Monroe Street? Do you think the butchering of th

For the last 30 years or more, we have been living high with no accountability. Just borrow and continue living high. Well, now the piper needs paying. I do not understand how anyone can live in this country and not pay some tax for that privilege, no matter how little they make. I feel everyone shoudl pay income tax for this privilege, even if it is a low percentage, but something.