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Guest columnists

Allow Ohio tax dollars to follow all students

The Parent Educational Freedom Act, Senate Bill 11, offers the best educational opportunity for students of both public and private schools. It guarantees parents the right to choose the school that best fits their child’s needs. As a former public school educator, I realize each child is ...

Continue thoughts and prayers after mass shootings

The East Lansing community still reels from the Michigan State University mass shooting last month that resulted in five students being critically wounded and three losing their lives. The students who tragically died — Arielle Anderson, Alexandria Verner and Brian Fraser — had bright ...

Higher threshold insults voters’ good judgment

Ohio’s greatness resides in its people, not its Statehouse politicians. Over our state’s 220-year history, its sturdy people many times have been betrayed by their elected lawmakers. Then they went to work to set things straight. The worst period of betrayal began in the 1880s and ...

60 percent vote margin just makes good sense

For far too long, Ohio’s Constitution has been far too susceptible to efforts by outside groups and special interests seeking to alter our governing document to achieve their own ends. We have repeatedly watched as special interests buy their way onto the statewide ballot, and then spend ...

World War III could come in 2023

It’s any given morning on any given week in 2023. Millions of Americans wake up without internet: no access to email, Facebook or online news. Foreign hackers have breached the security of energy and transportation grids and corporate and government computers, affecting everything from ...

Ohio to Work surpasses goals, establishes blueprint

The data confirming the success of Ohio To Work tell one story. But even more impact is evident in the individual anecdotes from job seekers finding employment and the Mahoning Valley service providers developing long-lasting relationships with one another that will long outlive the 18-month ...