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Opinion

Selling the Big Beautiful Bill

Editorials

It’s one thing to pass a major piece of legislation and have it signed by the president; it’s quite another to get the public to swallow it as something that benefits most of the country. House and Senate Democrats, who stood in unison against President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

GOP’s new state budget is not good for Ohioans

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: An open letter to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine: Well, it’s time to finalize the budget. But, perhaps not! Since the Republican supermajority ignores the Constitution every chance it gets, why not do the same? Ignore the constitutional June 30 deadline and send the whole thing back to ...

Trump turns on Trump Country

Editorials

The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump ...

Ohio has many advantages regarding affordability

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: Regarding the letter questioning Ohio affordability, I have several comments. After moving to Florida more than 40 years ago, we have returned. Why? The cost of living there was, and is, out of control. My property insurance in Fort Myers was over $ 15K a year. (If you can get ...

Are we really independent?

Editorials

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4, 1776? When the president of the United ...

Disturbing hypocrisy from the Republican Party

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: Does anyone else realize the disturbing hypocrisy that is occurring within our government? They have taken away women’s rights to medical health services, banning Roe, while in turn killing children, using planned genocide!! The defunding of AID and IRC has taken away food and ...