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Lawmakers in Ohio have an education mess to clean up

Lawmakers who never bothered to complete the phase-in of Ohio’s Fair School Funding Plan or update data that could have helped more equitably fund the state’s public schools are now also operating with the knowledge that their beloved EdChoice voucher program has been deemed unconstitutional by an appellate court. (Interim state Attorney General Andy Wilson already has said he plans to appeal that ruling to the 6-1 Republican majority Ohio Supreme Court.) If their consciences weren’t already being prodded by the knowledge that they abandoned fair school funding, and that an ...

The illogical 2026 elections

If politics were logical, Republicans should be leading in the polls and looking forward to maintaining, even expanding, their congressional majorities. Putting aside President Trump’s annoying personality, his vulgar language and his narcissistic behavior — as difficult as that might be for many people — Republicans should be asking voters these questions: Do you remember why you voted out the Democrats two years ago because of their economic and crazy policies like transgender athletes in women’s sports? If you do, why would you return them to the majority in Congress which ...

Trump’s war on EVs backfires

Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December. There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an earlier determination to enter the electric era with the rest of the world. And for their customers to be left to scrounge when energy prices revived demand. But the biggest reason is Donald Trump, and here’s an educated guess why he had it in for ...

Letters to the Editor

Think about what TDS may bring to America after Nov. 3 DEAR EDITOR: Democrats suffering with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) hate Trump so bad they will say anything to denigrate him. A recent letter writer wrote that ICE took a 5-year-old child into court with no family or lawyer. That doesn’t even make sense, yet Democrats believe that garbage. Obama gave a medal to his ICE director for deporting 900,000 illegals. Trump’s ICE director is a racist and Nazi. They are the same man, Tom Homan. Most of the Democrats don’t even know why they hate Trump, they just do. When asked ...

Americans must choose between Big Money or The People

America makes its choice on Nov. 3. It’s not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record 45%t of American voters now call themselves “independent” and don’t align with either party. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right,” as those terms have been used for the last half-century — representing preferences by the left for more and bigger social safety nets and by the right for lower taxes. The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top — in the billionaire class, tech bros, Wall Street, and the ...

Keep Meacham as county auditor

Some government jobs are like being an offensive lineman. Those performing well often do not get noticed until or unless a mistake happens. The quarterback gets sacked? The replay might show a missed block. But you rarely see replays of the successful blocks he made. Maybe that’s because they’re expected. A county auditor also likely won’t get noticed unless a county employee doesn’t get paid, or as we saw in neighboring Trumbull County in 2024, someone gets paid who shouldn’t have. That hasn’t been an issue here, where Mahoning County Auditor Ralph Meacham has been as ...