Editorials

Editorial: Year of COVID-19 brings out best, and worst

This past week, we marked a somber anniversary.It’s been one year since the World Health Organization deemed COVID-19 a pandemic. One year since Gov....

Editorial: A dead voter, errors require an Ohio board of elections to clean up...

From the Akron Beacon Journal:… A “vote from the grave,” as happened last fall in Summit County, is unacceptable. And a board of elections...

Editorial: The purveyors of misinformation

Our jaws dropped last year when a committee of the Ohio House listened to testimony from a business owner impacted by the pandemic shutdown...

Editorial: Don’t forget rural areas of Ohio

While the Buckeye State works to attract new visitors (and perhaps permanent residents), it has a running start with its efforts to attract employers....

Editorial: Redistricting just got more complicated

Ohio’s experiments in drawing fairer congressional and state legislative districts haven’t even gotten underway and already they’re in trouble.That’s because the U.S. Census Bureau...

Editorial: Follow Joe Burrow’s lead and address ‘philanthropy gap’ in Appalachian Ohio

The challenges facing our fellow Ohioans in Appalachian communities at times seem so overwhelming that it could be difficult for anyone to know where...

EDITORIAL: New plan to end gerrymandering could level playing field

How political districts for state and federal offices get drawn this year will be different from how it was done 10 years ago, and...

EDITORIAL: DeWine proposes $1 billion to speed pandemic recovery in Ohio. Is it enough?

On the same day the Congressional Budget Office said that employment isn’t expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine...

Killing pipeline all about theatrics

President Biden’s decision to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline has a touch of the theatrical about it. Signing the cancellation order...

Not a ‘handout’: Walk in a mom’s shoes

Around 50 national personalities signed on to a recent ad campaign urging President Joe Biden to reconsider the design of his $1.9 trillion pandemic...