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Editorials

Pass the Big Beautiful Bill, and then major reforms

As Senate Republicans turn the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by one vote in the House, into a major taffy pull, two questions hover in the background. Where is our country headed? Will Republicans retain their razor-thin margins in the House and Senate in 2026? Satisfaction regarding the ...

The titanic Trump bill: full Speed in Congress

Let me tell you the story of the star-crossed Republican Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans can’t cross the president and can’t compromise with Democrats. They are utterly useless as lawmakers, precariously perched on slim majorities. The Trump Republican plan for the ...

Do you have sums of money on your way?

Nothing spurs Buckeye State residents to action like sports fandom — or, at least, it’s tempting to leap to that conclusion after a report that visits to Ohio’s unclaimed funds website skyrocketed after lawmakers suggested paying for a new Cleveland Browns stadium with some of that ...

Shame on Karine Jean-Pierre

Now it’s all coming out. Not only was President Joe Biden in serious decline, Karine Jean-Pierre — celebrated in numerous fawning media profiles — was a rotten White House press secretary. In an interview with Axios, a former White House official called her “one of the most ...

Why CBO often gets it wrong

These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation ...

Liberty home blast accents need for safe, legal fireworks

Saturday night’s tragic house explosion in Liberty stands as a chilling reminder of the deadly dangers of fireworks and other explosives and of the need to make safety priority No. 1 whenever using even legal pyrotechnics. It also should reinforce the fact that even though Ohio, like 48 ...