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Opinion

Is anyone paying attention to the debt?

DEAR EDITOR: It is truly sad that Congress and our presidents are more concerned about passing a budget without reducing our national debt. Each American’s share of our $37 trillion dollar debt is over $110,000. We owe $2.6 billion each day in interest alone and much of the debt we owe is to ...

Congress is shirking its responsibility to us

DEAR EDITOR: When Congress fails to fund the government (your government, the one you pay plentiful taxes to keep running) it’s not just gridlock. It’s a shameful collapse of responsibility. Federal employees across the country have been sent home without pay or ordered to keep working for ...

Keep children’s hands, minds off hemp products

To his credit, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has earned a stellar reputation for prioritizing children’s health and well-being during his seven years in office. Across his two terms, DeWine has launched or promoted such children’s health initiatives as expanding mental health services, increasing ...

Trump loves farmers into bankruptcy

At a 2018 press conference in New York City, Trump said of American farmers, “I love them, and they voted for me, and they love me. ... And they said, ‘We don’t care if we get hurt, he’s doing the right thing.’” During his 2025 joint address to Congress, Trump said, “Our new ...

Ohio goes to bat in protection of endangered species

Most Ohio residents are used to thinking about seasonal changes in the rules such as burn bans or parking in such a way that the snowplow can get through. Perhaps less familiar is Ohio’s fall bat exclusion restriction period — from Oct. 15 through March 31. No, it has nothing to do with ...

Ban on intoxicating hemp by DeWine goes up in smoke

Gov. Mike DeWine’s ban on the sale of intoxicating hemp items ended before it could even take effect. DeWine, a Republican who has long opposed the sale of the products, announced Oct. 8 that he was declaring an “adulterated consumer product emergency,” effective Tuesday because the ...