Columns

- Murdock column: "Green Tax" better than cap and trade
- You cannot fight something with nothing. This simple fact should be chiseled in stone above the House and Senate Republican cloakrooms.
House Republicans energetically debated the cap-and-trade bill's myriad shortcomings last week. Alas, they never... Full story

- David Broder column: Has society healed itself of race-conscious remedies?
- DAVID S. BRODER / The Washington Post
- The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.
Neither the voting rights case out... Full story
- How to keep kids from getting bored over summer
- Staff reports
- With summertime here, many parents anticipate more relaxed schedules, family get-togethers, and time to catch up. Yes, summertime happens, but then reality hits. Kids complain of constant boredom - not enough to do, not enough friends to hang out with,... Full story

- Bart Mills: A simple idea that just might work
- Bart Mills
- There are a lot of ideas floating around out there right now about how to boost local economies. Most of them aren't very good and some are just plain lousy. But Cinda Baxter's idea, it strikes me as a pretty good one.
Baxter's idea bloomed forth exactly... Full story

- George Will column: Supreme Court's close vote depressing on racial rabble-rousing
- George Will / The Washington Post
- Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly - 5-4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to... Full story

- John Grindrod: A cautionary tale about going to the old ball yard
- John Grindrod
- On a beautiful spring Sunday, Shannon, my special lady friend, Jane, and I found ourselves walking into the newest addition to The Arena District in Columbus, Huntington Park, the first-year home of the Indians' AAA affiliate, the Clippers.
It was the... Full story

- Mitch Albom column: We're wacko in how we view Jacko
- By MITCH ALBOM, Detroit Free Press
- Michael Jackson left this world five days ago. But he hadn't been living in it for a long time.
In fact, it's hard to think of a celebrity who had less to do with the real world than Jackson. In the real world, you don't have pet llamas or roller coasters... Full story

- Ben Marrison column: Racetracks undeserving of slot money
- Ben Marrison, editor, The Columbus Dispatch
- Everybody's hurting.
Car dealers. Home builders. Retail stores. Metal stamping plants. Airlines. Newspapers. Banks. Insurance companies. Cities. States. School districts.
Given the widespread economic pain, why should the state give hundreds of millions... Full story

- Thomas Sowell column: Why the alarm about American health care?
- By THOMAS SOWELL
- Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably few coherent arguments.
Let's start at square one. Why is there alarm about American... Full story

- Tom Harrison: Kitty came running when sergeant sang scat
- Tom Harrison
- That was one laid-back local cat that stole the show on a sultry Wednesday evening last week when the Airmen of Note jazz ensemble entertained a crowd of several hundred in Lima's Faurot Park.
You might even say that swingin' cat was a regular party... Full story