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DeWine made the right call with AG pick

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine revealed two important decisions earlier this week. The most obvious was his choice of Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety Andy Wilson to replace outgoing state Attorney General Dave Yost. But the other was his determination to avoid dismissing the will of Ohio voters — and altering the nature of several state-level elections in November — by appointing Keith Faber to fill the post instead. Faber is state auditor, and is the Republican nominee for the state attorney general seat. Had DeWine appointed Faber, it would have created a vacancy for ...

Family planning in an age of anxiety

“Why so few babies?” asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about “The Population Bomb,” the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire consequences allegedly facing our baby boom generation. The Times essay, by contributing opinion writer Anna Louie Sussman, is drawn from her forthcoming book “Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty.” In contrast to Ehrlich, whose predictions fortunately did not play ...

Celebrity roasts are about as funny as smallpox

There was a time when celebrity roasts were built on the tiniest shred of wit, driven not by a desire to be as offensive as possible but to poke fun at uncomfortable truths packaged in genuine humor and delivered with enough intelligence to make even the roastee laugh. But today’s generation of roasts — now hosted by Netflix for ungodly amounts of money — are about as far from comedy as they could possibly be. No, they’re just algorithmic outrage factories, populated by attention whores. The latest example of this pattern was Netflix’s roast of Kevin Hart, who is clearly ...

Caps off to the Valley’s Class of 2026

About 3,500 high school seniors in the Mahoning Valley will walk proudly across stages over the next month to collect their reward for years of dutiful attendance, responsible conduct and academic growth. The processionals actually began two weeks ago when members of the first high school commencement program for the Class of 2026 in the region — Youngstown Rayen Early College High School — ushered in the season of pomp and circumstance at Stambaugh Auditorium. There, those top-notch high-achieving students who attend high school and college simultaneously received their diplomas, ...

Ohio needs renewal of tariff

As the U.S. Senate race between Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown intensifies, economic concerns are taking center stage. Voters are understandably focused on jobs, growth and the future of American industry. This makes it all the more urgent to elect leaders who understand the vital role of U.S. manufacturing, particularly as unfairly traded imports threaten to dismantle critical industries like mine, putting thousands of Ohioan manufacturing jobs at risk. As president of manufacturing at Pennex in Leetonia, I regularly walk the floor and meet with our great American workers, who are the ...

Better choices needed to end poverty

The left’s compassion has inflicted a terrible price on America’s poor. In 1964, former President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty.” He warned it “will not be a short or easy struggle,” but that “the richest Nation on earth can afford to win it.” He was right that it wouldn’t be a short or easy struggle. Johnson and Congress created a host of programs, including the Job Corps, Head Start and the Office of Economic Opportunity. His “Great Society” programs included Medicare and Medicaid. In 1965, he signed a housing bill with rent ...