The Lima News
Americans have made it abundantly clear they want the ability to make informed decisions about what they eat. The United States should join every European Union nation as well as Japan, Australia, Russia and China in requiring food producers to label the genetically engineered foods sold in stores and supermarkets.
Three things in a two-week span this month tell you plenty about the way U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan approaches his job in Congress.
The Lima News
Baltimore Sun
In a proposal to strengthen judicial elections in Ohio, Maureen O’Connor readily dismisses the best way forward, merit selection. The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court points reasonably to the repeated rejections by state voters of the method, judges first appointed on their qualifications, then standing for retention elections.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chicago Tribune
The Akron Beacon Journal
The story out of Cleveland about three young women kidnapped and held captive for a decade is a horrific tale that is only likely to get worse as the details emerge.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Ironton Tribune
The news that sexual assaults in the armed forces last year were estimated to be up 35% over 2010 brought a swift response from President Obama — that he had “no tolerance” for sexual crimes in the ranks and that perpetrators would be prosecuted and punished.
The Lima New
Bigger isn’t always better, as the Ohio Northern University College of Law will attest.
Chicago Tribune
Administrators at Elida Local Schools are running out of tricks when it comes to offering a quality educational experience on minimal funding.
Voters will be deciding the future of Johnny Appleseed Park District on Tuesday.
• Lima, Bluffton schools: Voters in Lima and Bluffton aren’t being asked for new money to fund school operations, only to continue to pay the same amount in the future that they are paying now.
Here’s what is at stake in Tuesday’s election for the Apollo Career Center.
At his news conference Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a powerful plea for ending the humanitarian and diplomatic disaster created by the continued detention of more than 160 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, more than 100 of whom are engaged in a hunger strike that necessitated the dispatch of an emergency medical team. The problem is that Obama has contributed to the crisis by acquiescing in congressional obstruction of his promise to close the facility. We hope he is serious when he says he will now “re-engage with Congress that this is not in the best interest of the American people.”
Chicago Tribune
The Lima News
Chicago Tribune
John Kasich should prepare his veto pen. Substitute Senate Bill 48 reflects the mischief-making, or just plain cynicism, that erodes public confidence in the way state lawmakers do business. The trouble with the legislation isn’t its primary thrust, easing the licensing fee for small craft brewers in Ohio. That makes sense. Where lawmakers went astray was in adding a provision with little public notice or discussion, all apparently to favor the wishes of a special interest.
Chicago Tribune
The Akron Beacon Journal
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
Baltimore Sun
The Akron Beacon Journal
After stripping a proposal for Medicaid expansion from their version of the state budget bill, Republicans in charge of the Ohio House want to suggest they have taken a half-step back, no doubt prompted by the impassioned and widespread negative reaction. The amended bill, which passed the House on Thursday, calls for a new legislative effort to reform the Medicaid program and Ohio’s health-care delivery system.
You’ve got to stop. You know you do it. It’s a miracle you haven’t caused a tragedy already.
By LANE FILLER
The Lima News
By TOM BENNING
Chicago Tribune
Al O'Dell
Dallas Morning News
The Lima News
The Columbus Dispatch
Philadelphia Inquirer
In a recent investigation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio found disturbing evidence of what many would consider an archaic, long-forgotten institution — debtors’ prison. The ACLU looked at 11 Ohio counties. In seven, it found indigent defendants illegally jailed because of their inability to pay fines and court costs in municipal and mayor’s courts.
The Lima News
The Lima News
Baltimore Sun
By Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Lima News
President Obama chose well in establishing the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument. Recognition long has been advocated, then-U.S. Mike DeWine introducing a resolution a decade ago. On Tuesday, Ken Salazar, the secretary of the interior, visited Wilberforce, in southwest Ohio, the home of Young where the monument will stand. The word “pioneer” can be overused. Not in this instance, Young in 1889 just the third African-American to graduate from West Point, becoming the first black officer to reach the rank of captain and then the rank of colonel.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kansas City Star
If Caroline Kennedy were simply a lawyer and author, it’s doubtful that she would be on any president’s short list for a major diplomatic appointment. But Kennedy is also a member of a storied American political family and an early and valued supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential ambitions. As a result of those dubious “credentials,” Kennedy is reportedly in line to be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan. It won’t be the first time that Obama has rewarded a prominent political supporter with a prestigious position, continuing a bipartisan practice of doling out ambassadorships to supporters and fundraisers. But Kennedy’s thin résumé and the importance of Japan make it a particularly egregious example of that time-dishonored practice.
The Akron Beacon Journal
The Lima News
Americans have made it abundantly clear they want the ability to make informed decisions about what they eat. The United States should join every European Union nation as well as Japan, Australia, Russia and China in requiring food producers to label the genetically engineered foods sold in stores and supermarkets.
Three things in a two-week span this month tell you plenty about the way U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan approaches his job in Congress.
The Lima News
Baltimore Sun
In a proposal to strengthen judicial elections in Ohio, Maureen O’Connor readily dismisses the best way forward, merit selection. The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court points reasonably to the repeated rejections by state voters of the method, judges first appointed on their qualifications, then standing for retention elections.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chicago Tribune
The Akron Beacon Journal
The story out of Cleveland about three young women kidnapped and held captive for a decade is a horrific tale that is only likely to get worse as the details emerge.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Ironton Tribune
The news that sexual assaults in the armed forces last year were estimated to be up 35% over 2010 brought a swift response from President Obama — that he had “no tolerance” for sexual crimes in the ranks and that perpetrators would be prosecuted and punished.
The Lima New
Bigger isn’t always better, as the Ohio Northern University College of Law will attest.
Chicago Tribune
Administrators at Elida Local Schools are running out of tricks when it comes to offering a quality educational experience on minimal funding.
Voters will be deciding the future of Johnny Appleseed Park District on Tuesday.
• Lima, Bluffton schools: Voters in Lima and Bluffton aren’t being asked for new money to fund school operations, only to continue to pay the same amount in the future that they are paying now.
Here’s what is at stake in Tuesday’s election for the Apollo Career Center.
At his news conference Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a powerful plea for ending the humanitarian and diplomatic disaster created by the continued detention of more than 160 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, more than 100 of whom are engaged in a hunger strike that necessitated the dispatch of an emergency medical team. The problem is that Obama has contributed to the crisis by acquiescing in congressional obstruction of his promise to close the facility. We hope he is serious when he says he will now “re-engage with Congress that this is not in the best interest of the American people.”
Chicago Tribune
The Lima News
Chicago Tribune
John Kasich should prepare his veto pen. Substitute Senate Bill 48 reflects the mischief-making, or just plain cynicism, that erodes public confidence in the way state lawmakers do business. The trouble with the legislation isn’t its primary thrust, easing the licensing fee for small craft brewers in Ohio. That makes sense. Where lawmakers went astray was in adding a provision with little public notice or discussion, all apparently to favor the wishes of a special interest.
Chicago Tribune
The Akron Beacon Journal
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
Baltimore Sun
The Akron Beacon Journal
After stripping a proposal for Medicaid expansion from their version of the state budget bill, Republicans in charge of the Ohio House want to suggest they have taken a half-step back, no doubt prompted by the impassioned and widespread negative reaction. The amended bill, which passed the House on Thursday, calls for a new legislative effort to reform the Medicaid program and Ohio’s health-care delivery system.
You’ve got to stop. You know you do it. It’s a miracle you haven’t caused a tragedy already.
By LANE FILLER
The Lima News
By TOM BENNING
Chicago Tribune
Al O'Dell
Dallas Morning News
The Lima News
The Columbus Dispatch
Philadelphia Inquirer
In a recent investigation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio found disturbing evidence of what many would consider an archaic, long-forgotten institution — debtors’ prison. The ACLU looked at 11 Ohio counties. In seven, it found indigent defendants illegally jailed because of their inability to pay fines and court costs in municipal and mayor’s courts.
The Lima News
The Lima News
Baltimore Sun
By Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Lima News
President Obama chose well in establishing the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument. Recognition long has been advocated, then-U.S. Mike DeWine introducing a resolution a decade ago. On Tuesday, Ken Salazar, the secretary of the interior, visited Wilberforce, in southwest Ohio, the home of Young where the monument will stand. The word “pioneer” can be overused. Not in this instance, Young in 1889 just the third African-American to graduate from West Point, becoming the first black officer to reach the rank of captain and then the rank of colonel.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kansas City Star
If Caroline Kennedy were simply a lawyer and author, it’s doubtful that she would be on any president’s short list for a major diplomatic appointment. But Kennedy is also a member of a storied American political family and an early and valued supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential ambitions. As a result of those dubious “credentials,” Kennedy is reportedly in line to be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan. It won’t be the first time that Obama has rewarded a prominent political supporter with a prestigious position, continuing a bipartisan practice of doling out ambassadorships to supporters and fundraisers. But Kennedy’s thin résumé and the importance of Japan make it a particularly egregious example of that time-dishonored practice.
The Akron Beacon Journal
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