Editorials
Stay away from the tracks
… Last year alone, 21 pedestrians were killed by trains in Ohio.Monday, a Marietta man taking a lunch break as part of a county work crew in Oak...
Notifying parents when kids pulled over
Michigan sheriffs have a program in place to tell parents, by text or email, when their children under age 21 are pulled over in a traffic stop by the...
A step backward for Ohio?
Backers of a bill that would bail out Ohio’s two nuclear power plants claim it is the comprehensive energy policy our state needs to move toward...
HB 154 needs to right wrongs
A bill to abolish state control of academically struggling school districts, including Lorain City Schools, passed in the Ohio legislature May 1, must...
Motorists at dangerous speeds
The callous disregard that many drivers have for speed limits was vividly illustrated recently when the Ohio State Highway Patrol conducted enforcemen...
Report advances understanding
What happened, exactly? That has been the question needing an answer at least since American intelligence agencies reported the Russian intervention i...
When drinking water and manure runoff mix
The Columbus Dispatch recently reported, citing a study by two environmental groups, that at least half the manure in the Maumee River’s watersh...
AG’s conduct was honorable
The outrage, from certain quarters, directed at Attorney General William Barr following his Thursday press conference is as clear a case of “kil...
Dealing with rising homelessness
Sadly, a recent front page headline in The Dispatch was not surprising, which makes it all the more a shame: “Local homelessness on rise.”...
Debate is healthy, and we need it
The progressive mob is on the march, again. Its goal is almost always to shut down conflicting speech by decrying any dissenter as a racist or misogyn...
