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Supreme Court lacks clarity in dismissal of abortion case

David Skolnick

It wasn’t a surprise that the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed Trumbull County Domestic Relations/Juvenile Division Judge David L. Engler’s lawsuit seeking to stop abortions in the state, but the justices could have at least explained why. Instead, the justice ruled 7-0 Aug. 19 that the state’s “motion to dismiss is granted. Accordingly, this case is dismissed.” Besides that, the court’s four-sentence entry declared that the matter originated with it and the American Civil Liberties Union’s motion to have more time to file a brief in support of the motion to dismiss was ...

El-Sayed still loves man who said US deserved 9/11

Editorials

Abdul El-Sayed has a problem. Well, he actually has a bunch of problems, including his history of rampant radicalism, his questionable group of friends and family,and the ever-confusing question of whether he was ever an actual doctor. But his main problem as he circles one of Michigan’s seats in the U.S. Senate like a left-wing vulture? Hasan Piker. Now, Hasan Piker is a chunk of human waste wrapped in Prada floating across the bottom of the barrel that is our media ecosystem. The Democratic Party — and particularly the progressive wing — has embraced him like teenage fans ...

Ohio children benefited from Dolly Parton’s philanthropy

Editorials

Plenty of the stories shared by those remembering Dolly Parton in the wake of her passing Tuesday revolved not around music, movies or even a theme park, but around books. Because of Parton and her Imagination Library, hundreds of millions of books have been sent out to children and their families. It was a project close to Parton’s heart, and one she expanded outside her beloved Tennessee to Ohio back in 2019. First lady Fran DeWine had a lot to do with that step for the organization. “Her devotion to children and literacy is unparalleled. Because of Dolly, millions of children ...

An app a day keeps the parents away from school

Editorials

Well, it’s back-to-school season again, and parents across the country know what that means: It’s time to download some new apps. Yes, you already have 10 apps; that’s true. There’s one for the park district, one for summer camp, one for your oldest kid’s teacher to post weekly updates, one for your youngest kid’s teacher to post weekly updates, one for the PTA to inform you of another request for a “suggested donation,” one for fuzzy pictures of children’s backs as they color, one for grades with a dropdown menu written in Cuneiform, one for a fifth grade parent ...

What if factories had gotten the data center treatment?

Editorials

When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities. Yet some of the same people who insist that we need to reindustrialize to return to a version of those halcyon days can’t bear the thought of the construction of industrial-scale computing facilities. They complain that data centers are unsightly and use lots of energy and water. But what do they think major factories are like? ...

Has Trump overplayed his hand?

Editorials

Three moves in the last week have exposed the limits of Donald Trump’s economic bullying. The U.S. slapped 50% tariffs on another $20bn of Canadian goods – then threatened the same rate on the cars, trucks, parts and steel that America Inc depends on. On Monday, the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, menaced Iran’s trading partners with exclusion from the U.S. financial network, hoping that coercion can deliver what months of war have not. And as the costs of war, tariffs and pro-billionaire tax cuts helped send U.S. bond yields higher, the Treasury stepped in to tame long-term ...