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Editorials

How to cope with Trump’s chaos

President Donald Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones. Case in point: After meeting with China's President Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States — the largest and second-largest economies in the world — ...

Property tax hikes didn’t seem to concern Valley voters at polls

So much for people being taxed out of their homes. With so much of the political rhetoric locally and across the state of Ohio focused on property taxes since 2023 — and spiking with a grassroots attempt to collect enough signatures to get a ban on them onto the ballot next year — the ...

Ohio Democrats played important role in compromise

Give credit where credit is due to Ohio lawmakers who worked together to come to a compromise on a redrawn Ohio Congressional district map that has its critics, but came as a bit of a surprise to those who expected something much worse. According to the Statehouse News Bureau, Democrat ...

Ohio workers pay the price for Senate’s inaction

Five hundred and fifty men and women at General Motor’s Ultium battery plant in Lordstown just got laid off. These weren’t make-work jobs. These were the kinds of high-skilled, high-wage, American manufacturing roles that Washington claims to care about — until it’s time to stand up ...

Put the phone down, because American democracy online is not pretty

Warning: this column is a dark path to a gaudy “Great Gatsby” party while children go hungry. We know the damage cellphones cause to kids and teenagers in learning and mental health epidemics of anxiety and depression. The research results are in. Private and public schools are banning ...

Ohio has chance to pick up slack for US Congress

Ohio lawmakers are missing an opportunity to show they are capable of stepping up when federal lawmakers do not. According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, there have not yet been any hearings — nor are any scheduled — for House Bill 502, “Appropriate funds for SNAP, TANF, WIC ...