Opinion

We owe much to our farm families, particularly for dedicating their lives to ensuring we have access to safe, secure, affordable and nutritious food, while at the same time protecting the environment and our precious natural resources. But producing the harvest we...

In what world does it make sense for a certain segment of society to be better educated but not fare as well financially as other segments? Similarly, does it make any sense at all for people who live in adjacent counties in the same state to have wildly different...

Depending on your age now, your memory for anguish and your luck at the time, you may not recall the double-dip recessions that devastated so many Midwesterners in the early 1980s. For those who lost their jobs, or woke up daily fearing that they would, it was a...

Last Friday was National Manufacturing Day. How did you celebrate? If you are like 1 of every 8 working Ohioans, you celebrated by going to your job in the manufacturing sector. Despite continuous claims to the contrary, “all the good manufacturing jobs”...

It’s time to end the ridiculous political theater surrounding Ohio’s controversial voter “purge” process that has wiped out 462,000 voter registrations across our state just this year. As we approach the 2020 presidential election, surely we...

There are times, we believe, when the truth sits in plain view but we cannot see it, and fallacies of patriotism are accepted and not questioned. Veterans suffering from life-threatening and terminal illnesses caused by exposure to toxic smoke from burn pits...

It is mind-boggling some people believe allowing us to keep more of our own money, instead of sending it to Washington, is a bad idea. Yet some, presumably those who believe politicians are the best people to decide how our hard-earned cash is spent, say the 2017...

How much money is at stake in Ohio lawmakers’ bailout of Akron-based FirstEnergy Solution’s nuclear power plants? Enough to motivate backers of House Bill 6 to produce slick TV commercials and mailers that wildly twist the truth in an effort to stop a...

Doctors are supposed to protect patients; university officials are supposed to look out for the well-being of students. People in authority aren’t supposed to protect each other at the expense of the public. Those truths endure, even though decades have passed...

Which highly successful high school coach will be the next to say, “I’m done. I’ve had enough of parents.”? Equally as possible: Which coach, no matter the level of his or her successes on and off the field or court, will be forced out by an...

With passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress set up a mechanism for improving lives — and for making additional improvements to the health care system. The landmark legislation is something better, a work in progress, with flaws and unintended consequences....