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Politics remains a dirty business
August 16, 2012 Politics is a filthy business. New technology provides the mud slingers added opportunities to ply their disgusting trade, as a news story from Ohio illustrate. more »»
NASA?brought home gold with Curiosity landing
August 14, 2012 NASA stuck the landing. It was a 10. Space geeks around the country cheered and hugged. more »»
Roses&Thorns
August 12, 2012 Roses to Greenford Christian Church for providing free cold bottled ice water to users of the Greenway Trail near Franklin Square. It is appreciated. more »»
Streamlining Ohio Medicaid bureaucracy
August 11, 2012 Politicians frequently insist more health care could be provided for less if doctors, hospitals and insurance companies would just improve efficiency. more »»
Ohio House sets pension hearings
August 10, 2012 Ohio’s five public employee retirement systems have a combined unfunded liability of more than $66 billion. That is more than $5,700 for each resident of the Buckeye State. more »»
Come out and help celebrate
August 9, 2012 There isn't a shortage of heritage in our fair city. Salem was founded in 1806. Throughout the decades, a blending of ethnicities, cultures, faith and beliefs has shaped its populace. more »»
Tax changes shouldn’t hurt needy, elderly
August 8, 2012 Gov. John Kasich is to be applauded for his determination to cut state income taxes for Ohioans. more »»
Get serious on ethics violations
August 7, 2012 Many public officials caught in wrongdoing maintain they just didn’t know what they did crossed legal and/or ethical lines. more »»
Research library honors caretaker of city’s history
August 6, 2012 The late Dale Shaffer was the preeminent historian of our city. Now he is becoming part of that very same history. Shaffer died at the age of 80 in November 2009. more »»
Roses&Thorns
August 5, 2012 Thorns for the abrupt closing of Miller-Holzwarth. More job loss and more tax revenue loss. more »»
Cheaters should be punished, even school officials
August 4, 2012 School administrators have an advantage their students don’t: In effect, they grade some of the tests used to determine how well they are performing. more »»
Obama should concentrate on all the unemployed
August 1, 2012 Aout 426,000 Ohioans — the number of unemployed state residents cited in the last state government report — have reason to agree with Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney. more »»
McKinley bill vital to millions
July 31, 2012 At one time before he became president, Barack Obama insisted his strategy against the coal industry was to make it so expensive to burn the fuel for power generation that no one would want to do s. more »»
‘Ride, Sally Ride’ into the heavens
July 25, 2012 During a launching of NASA’s Challenger in 1983, many in a crowd of a quarter-million people wore T-shirts proclaiming, “Ride, Sally Ride.” That she did. more »»
In saving Penn State’s reputation, good name lost
July 21, 2012 The conclusions reached by investigators looking into the sex scandal at Penn State University should prompt soul searching among those involved in college and university sports throughout the nation. more »»
Seniors will pay price for Medicare cuts in health plan
July 20, 2012 Much of the government’s expensive public relations campaign to convince Americans the national health care law is good for us focuses on senior citizens. more »»
Giving up all nukes suicidal
July 19, 2012 Learning to fight new kinds of wars is imperative, as Americans have learned during the past several years. more »»
Obama hasn’t aided teachers
July 18, 2012 Officials of the largest U.S. teachers’ union, the National Education Association, have made it very clear they support President Barack Obama’s bid for re-electio. more »»
Numbers show fewer fatalities
July 16, 2012 The State Highway Patrol recently released some very good news. The 1,015 traffic fatalities recorded in 2011 is the smallest annual total on record for Ohio. more »»
Roses&Thorns
July 15, 2012 Roses for the announcement of a local businessman’s plan to resurrect Timberlanes. An active building within our downtown sector is better than an empty building. We have enough of those alread. more »» |
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