Rick Muccio editorial cartoon for Sept. 9
Rick Muccio editorial cartoon for Sept. 9
Ohio launches 2 sites to chart kids’ progress
Want to know more about how well Buckeye State public schools are preparing our young people for the next phase of their lives? The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce announced last week a couple of new tools: one tracking the education level of high school graduates and another tracking career outcomes. According to a report by WFMJ-TV, the idea is to help families, educators and policymakers learn more about their prospects and how to continually improve them. “Parents want to know their child’s education leads to a brighter future,” said department Director Stephen ...
As US loses virtue, it also loses the many blessings of liberty
A farmer can’t make his plants grow, but he can create the conditions that lead to their flourishing. A society can’t make its citizens virtuous, but it can nurture the institutions that lead to virtuous citizens. Great thinkers in Western civilization have long noted the importance of virtue. In Politics, Aristotle declared, “The best life, both for individuals and states, is the life of virtue, when virtue has external goods enough for the performance of good actions.” “Virtue then is a settled disposition of the mind determining the choice of actions and emotions, ...
All political violence must be condemned, punished harshly
The traditional Labor Day weekend launch to the home stretch of intensive fall political campaigning got off to a rocky, disturbing and intolerable start in the Mahoning Valley this weekend. On Sunday afternoon, an assailant reportedly charged toward the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, during her campaign stop at the 180th Canfield Fair, injuring visitors before he was subdued by state troopers, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Though at least two people suffered minor injuries from the stampede, Acton thankfully was unhurt. Patrol members and Mahoning County ...
Editorial cartoon for Sept. 8
Editorial cartoon for Sept. 8
Venezuela oil deal represents good progress, bad structure
In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two got out. Chevron stayed and ate two decades of abuse for it. Chavez handed what he took to party loyalists, ran it into the ground and left his people eating zoo animals atop the largest proven oil reserves on earth. Give President Donald Trump the credit he has earned. Nicolas Maduro is gone. The Strait ...