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Ohio’s bid to recruit, train 40K poll workers is about preparation

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As Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office prepares for a $1 million initiative to recruit and train an additional 40,000 poll workers before November, the folks at the local level understand this isn’t about volume as much as it is about preparedness. LaRose says the effort updates requirements and resources to ensure poll workers are prepared to serve voters professionally, efficiently and in accordance with Ohio law. And Mandy Amos, director of the Washington County Board of Elections says that’s got a lot to do with the anticipation ahead of hotly contested races for ...

In defense of data centers

Editorials

New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. There are two paths forward on this issue. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next 50 years of the American economy. The other bans the future, then acts surprised when the jobs show up somewhere else. I’m here to defend the data centers because most of the fear you’re hearing is manufactured. Most people opposed to data centers don’t live anywhere near one. Their concern isn’t experience. It’s a propaganda campaign. The legitimate worries all have answers. Yes, you often ...

Democrats sue to keep CNN biased

Editorials

The left has thrown a completely counterfactual fit about how the Paramount takeover of CBS created some kind of “MAGA-coded” news division under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. No one who watches network news daily right now can see much of a difference today between CBS and ABC and NBC. But mere internal questioning of whether CBS could attempt to be less biased to the left has caused a tsunami of panic. Now, as the Paramount merger with Warner Brothers-Discovery approaches its conclusion, 12 attorneys general filed a last-minute lawsuit to block it — but they won’t say it’s ...

Someone should have been looking out for those kids

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A Vinton County case in which 16 children were rescued from horrifying conditions and four adults now face child endangerment charges has raised a host of questions. One that repeatedly surfaces is how in the world no one noticed what was happening to those children, inside that house. The answer highlights the crucial role of public school truancy officers and the safeguard we take away from kids when we allow them to be removed from the public school setting without proper monitoring and assessment. NBC 4 requested records from Gallia County, where it reports the local school ...

How America’s love of air conditioning became a hot topic

Editorials

By Mitch Albom Few things in life, besides a glass of water when you are crossing the desert, offer as much immediate relief as air conditioning. You’re boiling outside, you pull open a door, you step into a paradise of 68-degree air, and your body all but screams “Hallelujah!” In years past, businesses used to boast that their confines were chilled. Movie marquees used to promote “manufactured weather!” Roadside motels would flash “A.C.” in neon. Restaurants, banks, department stores, all happily bragged that they were cool — in the literal sense of the word. It ...

When the guardrails are destroyed

Editorials

People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and grandparents. They believed such things would lead to better lives for themselves and for the nation. For many, they did. Today we look at the lawlessness, the antisemitism, the hate speech directed at the president, teen takeovers, attacks on police officers, and others and we might ask: why is this happening? The answer can be found on the side of the road. To use a metaphor, the guardrails have been removed. Guardrails are crash-tested barriers ...