Editorials
Editorial: Let’s move on from Larry Householder
It took nearly a year, but Larry Householder is out of office.The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 75-21 to remove the former Republic...
Editorial: Reasonable solution is available for fixing school funding. Is Ohio ready?
Ohio lawmakers are currently split between a reasonable solution to funding Ohio schools and a partisan one.Whether Ohio can yet meet the constitution...
Editorial: Lawmakers on verge of throwing Ohio’s children out with the bathwater in bad child-care proposal
Whether we will pay now or pay more later is being debated in our Statehouse.An amendment to the Senate version of Ohio’s two-year budget pushed...
Editorial: Why are the Cleveland Indians withholding their top name-change options?
The Cleveland Indians recently announced that they’d narrowed down the list of possible new team names to 1,198.What are those names? They’...
Editorial: An apology from Hudson is warranted
Last week, retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was speaking at a Memorial Day ceremony in Hudson when he began to talk about how freed black slaves h...
In praise of the rise of seniors
What do Queen Elizabeth (95), Janet Yellen (74), our president (78) and the pope (84) have in common?How about (Ohio governor) Mike DeWine (74), Jerry...
Editorial: Extracting good ideas from proposed budget
Ohio state senate Republicans have presented their own version of the upcoming state budget, which holds some appealing details for Buckeye State res...
Editorial: No right to that gun
A headline in Saturday’s newspaper made a notable distinction: “This AK-47 not covered by the Second Amendment.”The article by Regis...
Editorial: Taking time to listen is wise move; trying to silence others is not
Recent events show how history repeats itself.As you probably have read in the Beacon Journal, a retired Army officer’s microphone was cut for t...
Editorial: Helping Ohio’s new farmers
This country, and this state, need farmers.We should do all we can to encourage those trying to become farmers — especially family farmers ̵...
