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Military survivor benefits should reflect ongoing needs of families

Serving in the military is a noble commitment that touches more than just troops, as the daily realities of deployments, relocations and the uncertainty of the profession itself also transcend to their families. In truth, spouses, parents and children adjust their lives around these demands — learning to manage households, careers and schooling while their loved one is away. Even when veterans return home, their households may still face new challenges, particularly if they develop toxic-related health conditions that may require ongoing care. As these responsibilities accumulate, ...

Which credentials will be most useful for young people?

Ohio has done an excellent job supporting high school students looking to get a jump on future careers by offering and incentivizing industry credentials through career-technical education. But a recent analysis suggests some credentials may be worth more to students than others. The Fordham Institute looked at career clusters in which credentials are offered. Wage returns seven years after high school were measured for each. While health, business, agriculture, engineering, law/public safety, construction, transportation and manufacturing all yielded positive results; the arts, human ...

Case closed on abortion pill

The Supreme Court has just restored a woman’s ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the drug, mifepristone. The Charlotte Lozier Institute is an anti-abortion organization that purports to provide scientific research for the pro-life movement. Among the risks of loosening restrictions on being given the abortion pill, it writes, is that it enables fathers who don’t want a child to ...

Why won’t former President Obama ever go away?

In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924. Barack Obama, the nation’s fourth transformative ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Warren native and 2019 Howland High School graduate Vince Mauri for his superlative performance at the Glass City Marathon in Toledo late last month. The Arizona State University and Notre Dame graduate finished the grueling event with a time of 2:05:54, running 16 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. In so doing, he set a new record for the marathon and also became the fourth-fastest American marathoner in history. He also broke the state record by more than 13 minutes. With such stats as those, we’re confident Mauri will have no trouble conquering his next major ...

Valley airport merits support for new service

Things are looking up — literally — at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. For the first time since Allegiant Airlines withdrew the last regular passenger carrier at the airport in early 2018, the wheels are spinning fast and furiously toward restoring vitally needed commercial service there. In the name of maximizing use of the 1,468-acre facility and of catalyzing further economic development for the Mahoning Valley, that campaign merits maximum momentum. Though challenges toward reaching that lofty goal remain many, reason for optimism abounds. The Western ...