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Editorials

Feeling a little bit of nostalgia for a bad habit

I miss smoking. There. I’ve said it. Now, I don’t miss it enough to go out and buy a $17 pack of cigarettes — which is apparently the lunatic price these days — and sit down and smoke them, but I certainly miss it enough to hope that if I’m ever on a plane that’s about to go ...

Strive to behave as ‘Easter People’ throughout year

For Christians, Sunday is the holiest day of the year — Easter. It is a day of celebration, commemorating the resurrection of the Son. For millennia, this season also has been a time to celebrate the return of the sun, when our minds are on a kind of rebirth and living again in the ...

Thanking Ohio National Guard members for their continued service

Ohio’s National Guard is made up of 35,000 active and reserve Buckeye State residents who sign on to be available for their state and country when duty calls. If help is needed — whether that be responding to a flood-stricken community or defending our country’s interests halfway around ...

The government doesn’t own you

Politicians tax what we earn, regulate what we build and often decide what we can do with our bodies and our money. I like to think I own myself. But politicians increasingly act as if they do. “People should not have power over other people’s lives,” says Timothy Sandefur, author ...

What is ‘Transgender Awareness Day’ actually about?

It’s finally springtime, which can only mean one thing. Not Easter, or Passover or Ramadan. No, March 31 was International Transgender Awareness Day, an annual day dedicated to transgender awareness. Taking to social media, the Democratic Party announced that “Trans rights are human ...

Ohio, W.Va. have plenty of work ahead

Residents of this region pride themselves on a pioneering spirit that has spread across generations of those who helped fuel and build this country. But these days, we’re falling behind as others have picked up the torch. In fact, according to WalletHub’s “Most and Least Innovative ...