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Ohio HB 326 could provide students with more options

Not every student has the same path to follow after high school graduation. They don’t have the same skill sets, interests or aspirations. So why would we limit the options they have for assessing their readiness to proceed on those paths? In Ohio, there may be other options available, if lawmakers give serious consideration to state House Bill 326, introduced by Reps. Kevin Ritter, R-Marietta, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy. “Regarding the use of nationally standardized assessments in public and chartered nonpublic schools and state institutions of higher education,” it would ...

Equal, fair and a farce from Colbert

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie “Necessary Roughness” in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When Thompson ran for president in 2008, NBC stopped aired reruns of “Law & Order” that featured Thompson, who had been the district attorney on the show. The Equal Time Doctrine is not new. But the national press corps, always ready to pounce on President Donald Trump and Republicans, has suddenly ...

Black history is defended by those willing to preserve it

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. While we celebrate this milestone, we are also grappling with efforts to remove or revise black history in the classroom as well as the exhibits found at federal parks and museums. But black history cannot be erased; it is preserved because individuals and communities decide to step in. One example of this is found in Michigan, and it began with state legislation to support a celebration in 1915. The National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee ran from Aug. 22 to Sept. 16, 1915, in Chicago. The celebration marked the ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Boardman Glenwood Junior High School students, Principal Laura McCreery and the PTA for their exceedingly successful show of support for seventh grader Levi Kulikowsky. Levi has been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that requires intensive treatments that will keep him out of Glenwood halls for the rest of the school year. They quickly and compassionately organized a major fundraising campaign to help the family defray the costs of Levi’s treatments. As of late last week, nearly $9,000 had been raised through benefits, sales of “Stand Strong with Levi” T-shirts and ...

Challenges remain in fighting all types of heart disease

February has long gained fame as a month to celebrate the heart in two completely different spheres. Of course, there’s the metaphoric heart captured on Valentine’s cards designed to conjure up feelings of happiness, romance and love. Contrast that with the very serious — sometimes deadly serious — business of the American Heart Association in drawing much-needed awareness to the human heart and the diseases that so often attack that life-giving organ in our region, state, nation and world. Yes, cardiovascular disease rises as the most common and most destructive killer ...

Why so much faith in politics?

It’s only February and other than the almost nonstop coverage of the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping story, especially cable networks are obsessed with the November election, though it is more than eight months away. So much can — and likely will — change before then. Why all the attention? When I was active on the lecture circuit my opening line was “I’m happy to be here tonight from Washington, D.C., where the only politicians with convictions are in prison.” Another laugh-getter was “Do you know the meaning of politics? Poly means many and ticks are blood-sucking ...