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Our healthcare woes began with group plans DEAR EDITOR: As a postscript to my July letter, I’ll add that some of us healthcare free speechers believe that employer-paid group health insurance is the likely origin of America’s impenetrable healthcare “pancake logic” and “kaleidoscope logic.” Employer-paid group health conquered America through the stealthy and publicly unrecognized “great values swap” beginning in the 1940s, and still at work today. To make group health work, it had to subvert and displace the commonly accepted dictionary definitions of words and ...

Are you still buying what the Browns are selling?

Ed Puskas

The most amazing thing about Cleveland Browns fans is our ability to ignore just about anything that has happened previously, because no matter what evidence exists to the contrary, we convince ourselves that this will be our year. As bad as the Browns have been since their return to the NFL in 1999, we’re always ready, willing and able to suspend disbelief when it comes to this franchise. But this year feels different after the Browns decided on Monday to the always disappointing and sometimes creepy Deshaun Watson their starting quarterback. Again. How can the Haslams and ...

Trump declares war on Canada

Editorials

Not exactly a war, but a trade war — which will impose huge costs on both American consumers and on Canada. As I said, Trump is now completely and utterly out of his mind. The very idea of a trade war with Canada — our neighbor, our ally, our closest friend, a nation that’s peaceful and whose people have a reputation for kindness — is absurd. But Trump is doing it anyway. He’s imposing a 50% tariff on goods coming from Canada — which, remember, is an import tax paid by you and me. The tariffs account for $20 billion of the $382 billion worth of products Americans ...

The right to be left alone

Editorials

“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far more consequential than a new piece of police technology. It represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the individual and the state. These cameras allow government agents to record, identify, catalog ...

Restore death penalty in Ohio, then expand it to rapists of children

Editorials

The pendulum on the hypercontentious death penalty in Ohio shows promising signs toward swinging clearly in the direction of growing popular support for its application. Consider: • A July 2026 Pew Poll of 3,354 Americans found 68% of respondents view the death penalty as morally justified for those committing murder while only 28% viewed it as wrong, reversing a decadeslong general trend of majority support for its abolition. • The pace of executions across America is accelerating. The U.S. carried out 47 death-penalty sentences in 2025, nearly doubling the 25 executions from ...

Orchids & onions

Editorials

ORCHID: To Warren Sunshine Homes Director Melissa Phillips, Mayor Doug Franklin, other city officials and the 7 17 Credit Union for recently fulfilling a decades-old lease-to-own promise by turning long-term renters into official and proud home owners. Sunshine, a nonprofit formed in the 1990s that manages nearly 200 single-family houses in Warren and Trumbull County, had promised its original tenants they could buy their homes after a 15-year affordability period. However, complicated legal and funding issues blocked those sales for years. At long last, those roadblocks were removed ...