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Which credentials will be most useful for young people?

Ohio has done an excellent job supporting high school students looking to get a jump on future careers by offering and incentivizing industry credentials through career-technical education. But a recent analysis suggests some credentials may be worth more to students than others. The Fordham Institute looked at career clusters in which credentials are offered. Wage returns seven years after high school were measured for each. While health, business, agriculture, engineering, law/public safety, construction, transportation and manufacturing all yielded positive results; the arts, human ...

Case should now be closed on abortion pill

The Supreme Court has just restored a woman’s ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the drug, mifepristone. The Charlotte Lozier Institute is an anti-abortion organization that purports to provide scientific research for the pro-life movement. Among the risks of loosening restrictions on being given the abortion pill, it writes, is that it enables fathers who don’t want a child to ...

Why won’t former President Obama ever go away?

In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924. Barack Obama, the nation’s fourth transformative ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Mark Lamoncha, president and CEO of Columbiana-based Humtown Products, for being honored by President Donald Trump earlier this week as Small Business Person of the Year for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Lamoncha was selected among all other state nominees for the prestigious honor. And for good reason. He has overseen amazing production and hiring growth in recent years at Humtown, a global leader of conventional and 3D printed sand cores and molds. In his remarks, the president said the federal government could use more leaders just like Lamoncha. Truer words were ...

Valley airport merits support for new service

Things are looking up — literally — at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. For the first time since Allegiant Airlines withdrew the last regular passenger carrier at the airport in early 2018, the wheels are spinning fast and furiously toward restoring vitally needed commercial service there. In the name of maximizing use of the 1,468-acre facility and of catalyzing further economic development for the Mahoning Valley, that campaign merits maximum momentum. Though challenges toward reaching that lofty goal remain many, reason for optimism abounds. The Western Reserve ...

Who is monitoring the debt?

People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons”: “Another day older and deeper in debt.” I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027 to put the military on what he called a “wartime footing.” Hegseth says the Pentagon needs the money for more drones, munitions and modernized systems. Though President Trump has denied it, bragging that we have the strongest military in the world, it would appear that the Iran conflict has significantly depleted ...