FRIDAY Jan. 23 editorial cartoon
FRIDAY Jan. 23 editorial cartoon
Cut the fraud, not child care
Groundwork Ohio is among the organizations that has signed on to a letter from child care groups across the country, asking the federal Administration for Children and Families to continue funding the Child Care Development Block Grant and other resources. Though a federal judge has temporarily blocked a funding freeze to Minnesota, California, Colorado, Illinois and New York, there are still worries other states will have to defend their own child care systems and oversight. According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, the letter says fraud “at any level is unacceptable and ...
Keep our local music rockin’
Although a longtime sentiment, Joni Mitchell phrased it well, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Ironic how these lyrics are actually lines in one of the songs she has performed so many times before a live audience. Ironic how something so many of us have cherished, live local music, has been wounded, diminished, forsaken, forgotten and on its way to being deleted from so many lives. It’s more than sad. It is absolutely heart-wrenching to those of us who have spent so much time enjoying, supporting and participating in live ...
Does Trump need a portrait of James K. Polk?
Donald Trump has a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, but as he tries to browbeat Denmark into coughing up Greenland, maybe he should add a portrait of a Jackson acolyte — James K. Polk. If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are fewer better representatives than the 11th president. He added more than 1 million square miles to U.S. territory and extended the country all the way to the Pacific, making him the most successful president not celebrated as part of the American pantheon. Trump’s impulse to throw his weight around and assume control of ...
DeWine puts Ohio spotlight on our children
As Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine begins his final year in office, he appears to have his sights firmly on matters that will affect our youngest residents. Among the programs he hopes to see expand is OhioSee, according to a report by WSAZ-TV. So far Ohio Student Eye Exam has been run as a pilot program in 15 counties: Allen, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Erie, Franklin, Guernsey, Huron, Jackson, Lorain, Mahoning, Marion, Montgomery and Ross. It provides vision screening, comprehensive eye exams, prescription glasses (if needed) and further referrals. “Every school in the state, who is ...
Scandal makes strong case for sports-betting crackdown
It wasn’t that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount. It was inevitable, given human nature, that bad things would follow legalization. Last week, The Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story that reported “one of the most sprawling gambling cases in the history of American sports: a national and international conspiracy to allegedly rig dozens of games that reached from U.S. college basketball to the top professional league in China.” There was a time in America when laws ...