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Opinion

Is Railway Safety Act all it purports to be?

The White House is calling on Congress to include a railroad regulation bill as part of a larger transportation funding package this year. It’s not the first time President Donald Trump has supported it, and the legislative branch would be wise to ignore his counsel again. The Railway ...

White House is simply for sale

In the end, it wasn’t the disturbingly Gestapo-like tactics of her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, smashing cars, pulling innocents off the streets and executing two American citizens, that did Kristi Noem in. It wasn’t the sneering contempt of court orders or the incessant ...

ICE Barbie is gone, but will immigration policy improve?

The worst of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s many terrible moments in last week’s congressional hearings on immigration control probably came when she admitted to being unfamiliar with the shockingly appalling case of Marimar Martinez. She is the Chicago woman who managed to ...

Do you actually think Israel dragged Trump into war?

“It’s Israel’s war,” our collection of smooth-brained podcast class declared as they rushed to pump out as much propaganda as possible in the aftermath of the joint American-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The range of arguments we’re seeing from this ...

Beaver, Boardman police departments among accredited agencies in Ohio

Given that Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services data shows 2,837 “use of force” incidents from 1,040 police agencies took place in the state in 2025, one would think law enforcement agencies would be clamoring to take advantage of the new Ohio Collaborative Law Enforcement Accreditation ...

Here comes the sun: Why not make DST permanent in US?

Spring doesn’t officially begin until March 20, but the combination of unseasonably mild temperatures and the annual “spring forward” of clocks this weekend seemed to signal that better days are ahead. Longer days, too. Daylight Saving Time means less light in the morning, but more in ...