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An empty nest test

Opinion: Our three cats got yelled at a bit more. They also got a bit more pampered, too. And my wife


Biennium budget falls short

Opinion: COLUMBUS There’s plenty of stuff packed into the $62 billion biennial state budget that will


Lessons of Seneca Falls, 165 years later

Opinion: By Annie Laurie Gaylor McClatchy-Tribune News Service This week marks the 165th anniversary of


Food that cures everything

Opinion: I was pleasantly surprised to read an article titled “The Food That Cures Everything (Almost)” in an


Ohio’s new schools look great but do little to solve inequities

Editorial: Few would dispute the progress made in Ohio over the past 15 years in building or renovating about


Good ol’ USA has slipped

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords America the Beautiful! America the Greatest! We’re No. 1, right?


Roaring ’20s have returned

Opinion: By William A. COLLINS OtherWords Many of us who have reached Social Security age had a pretty


Ohio’s budget is no ‘miracle’

Opinion: Following the passage of the state biennial budget last month, we heard phrases like “an Ohio


Respect Zimmerman verdict

Opinion: Chicago Tribune: For some Americans anguished by the Saturday night acquittal of George Zimmerman,


Air travel safer today than ever before

Opinion: By James L. GATTUSO Heritage Foundation The July 6 crash landing of an Asiana jetliner in San


A temporary respite from the anti-democratic filibuster

Editorial: We’re happy to see an agreement reached in the U.S. Senate that allowed the long-overdue


Garrison making right moves in 6th

Opinion: If Jennifer Garrison wanted to show state Sen. Lou Gentile that he would be in for a fight for


Ohio’s record rainy-day fund spotlights spending priorities

Editorial: A record $1.48 billion now sits in Ohio’s rainy-day fund, but lest anyone think the surplus is only


Signs of economic recovery

Opinion: Vicksburg (Miss.) Post: Golding Barge Line Inc.’s plan to place a manufactured office building on


Ready for armed drones on the border?

Opinion: By Glenn Garvin Miami Herald Last month, when the Senate passed an amendment to its immigration-