Editorials

Editorial: Ohio tax ban shortsighted

We won’t ask — yet again — why Ohio’s General Assembly members concoct such bad ideas because that’s just too easy. It seems too...

Editorial: Ohio SNAP test provision must go

As Ohio legislators hash out a budget through reconciliation of differing House and Senate proposals, one provision must be thrown out.The Senate budget...

Editorial: Fairer Ohio redistricting does not include arming one party at taxpayer expense

In two separate constitutional referendums, in 2015 and 2018, Ohio voters overwhelming rejected grotesquely partisan gerrymanders and decreed a series of safeguards intended to...

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...

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 constitutional test...

Editorial: Lawmakers on verge of throwing Ohio’s children out with the bathwater in bad...

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...

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’re not saying.What...

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...

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),...

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 residents....