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...