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Editorials

Take precautions against risk of sudden wildfires

Fall fire season has arrived across our region. Don’t let a little rainy weather in September fool you; things are still dry enough to elevate the risk of wildfires. That risk is already higher now that leaves are hitting the ground, and other vegetation is either going dormant and drying out ...

Bondi dishes out attitude

A lot of political figures are understandably nervous about facing a Senate committee probe. Not Pam Bondi. In more than four hours of testimony Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she responded to the most polite questions with the air of contempt worthy of her boss, President ...

Trump must rank as the most pro-Israel president in history

Donald Trump has held many rallies, but never one in the parliament of a foreign nation. President Trump’s speech to the Knesset on Monday was a raucous, celebratory affair with the audience of Israeli lawmakers showering him with adulation. Trump’s reception made it a little like a ...

State lawmakers should not dictate schools’ curriculum

First, state lawmakers wanted to make sure teachers understood what they were NOT allowed to teach; now they are introducing the bits they do want teachers to include, despite repeated insistence they are not serving their own personal agendas by doing so. Ohio educators at all levels have ...

Americans must not allow hate to spoil their humanity

Recently, I watched the live-streamed memorial for Charlie Kirk, the recently slain political activist and organizer of the Christian right. During his life in the public eye, I considered many of his ideas abhorrent, bigoted and cruel. I still do, but I’m not interested in litigating his ...

Networks promote Democrats vs. ‘combative’ Pam Bondi

One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, and all the ...