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Editorials

What’s behind Bezos’ stunning Post declaration?

The Washington Post’s editorial pages are about to change. That might not be good news. Jeff Bezos, the newspaper’s billionaire owner, announced Wednesday that the topics covered in its opinion section will focus on defending personal liberties and the free market. The Associated Press ...

Lawmakers must mull over SB 109

State lawmakers are going to have to start making difficult decisions about where they want to gain political points and where they want to do better for Ohioans. The two goals are not always reached by the same path. Continued economic uncertainty, rising food insecurity and proposed changes ...

Flu shot can prevent worst-case scenario

While lawmakers in neighboring states debate loosening vaccine requirements for school-aged children, Ohio is facing a frightening example of how quickly potentially dangerous (and deadly) illnesses can spread. In fact, doctors in the Buckeye State are stressing that even at this point in the ...

Ohio food banks face steep cuts in state funding

As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget proposal, food banks across Ohio could see a significant reduction in the amount of state funding they receive. Most of this is due to the loss of what had been a one-time $7.5 million appropriation in the previous budget. But that decrease has food bank ...

Orchids and onions

ORCHID: To Youngstown native Pamela R. Goodwine for overcoming myriad tragedies to triumph as Kentucky’s first black female Supreme Court justice. Goodwine, a 1978 graduate of the former South High School, took her seat on the Bluegrass State’s high court bench earlier this year after ...

Stop the steal of full pensions for Delphi retirees

For more than 15 years now, the lives and livelihoods of 20,000 hard-working former salaried employees of the Delphi Corp. have been harshly and unfairly compromised. Those employees, including more than 5,000 from Ohio and the Mahoning Valley, have been victimized by a chain of events during ...