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Opinion

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To the Poland Township Police Department for its statewide honors and recognition as this month’s Agency of the Month for outstanding community policing from The Law Enforcement Foundation and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. The award is most fitting, given the police ...

Letters to the editor

White supremacists are a stain on America DEAR EDITOR: I have a question for the 400 white supremacists who marched through Washington D.C., on July 4. What kind of a man needs to wear a mask, a hat and sunglasses and march onto a metro train and surround a young black girl sitting by ...

Prescription for a socialist workforce

America has a socialism problem, and it’s bigger than most citizens realize. When candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America win Democratic Party primaries, or New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hails “the warmth of collectivism,” socialism’s advance is obvious. But ...

Following a tragedy, we need honesty, not judgment

As the tragedy of Nolan Wells' death continues to dominate the news, there are so many unanswered questions. Perhaps the most significant one is what his grieving parents shared in a recent interview with "Good Morning America's" Michael Strahan. Why did their 18-year-old son separate from ...

The measure of one man’s life: Remembering Lindsey Graham

On Saturday, I lost more than a friend. It feels as though I’ve lost a member of my family. I have known Lindsey Graham since I was in my 20s. I will never forget those early days when he first began campaigning for public office. I took him to South Carolina State University, where I had ...

Graham was the best kind of ‘operator’

On Feb. 22, 2022, two days before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rumbling toward Ukraine’s capital, Donald Trump said of the Russian leader: “This is genius. ... Here’s a guy who’s very savvy.” Eight days later, Lindsey Graham offered a starkly different sentiment: “The only way ...