EDITORIALS
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The editorial board includes Doug Olsson, Publisher (dolsson@aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0371); Jim Krumel, Editor (aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0391); and David Trinko, Managing Editor (aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0467).
Editorial roundup
June 11, The Wall Street Journal on Democratic state Attorneys General suing to block T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint: Ten Democratic state Attorneys General on Tuesday sued to block T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint, and the timing was no coincidence. The...
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Chicago Tribune: Democratic presidential candidates go big on spending
Quick: Of the presidents who have served over the past 50 years, who were the most fiscally restrained? Ronald Reagan? George H.W. Bush? Gerald Ford? No. Annual spending growth, in fact, was slowest under Bill Clinton. Democrats and others may remember that balancing...
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Editorial: Ohio schools need science-based guidance for teaching health
In a state with nation-leading rates of obesity, drug overdose and infant mortality, the last thing Ohio schools should do is shortchange basic health education. Unfortunately, Ohio actually is the last — the lone holdout that gives public schools no guidance on...
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Editorial: Compromise needed on auto pollution standards
The world’s automakers want President Trump to strike a deal with California. Last week, 17 car companies, including General Motors, Ford, Honda and Toyota, sent a letter to the White House urging the president to find a middle ground in his planned rollback of...
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Toledo Blade: Camps stir interest of youth in factory jobs
Manufacturing jobs, one of the pillars of northwest Ohio’s economy, aren’t the eye-candy careers that school-age children usually desire. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is trying to change that with a wave of camps aimed at fourth through eighth graders to stir...
read moreEditorial: Positive spin can’t hide fact GM has no Lordstown plan
If General Motors is so confident that the prospective buyer it’s touting for its idled Lordstown plant is primed for success, why isn’t it investing in the start-up company? The simple answer is that GM Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra didn’t...
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Bloomberg News: Don’t ask the Fed to manipulate the dollar
An old debate looks poised to make one of its frequent comebacks: How much, if at all, should the Federal Reserve concern itself with the value of the dollar? Oddly enough, it’s a question on which President Donald Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren seem to...
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Editorial: Arrest of detestable deputy Scot Peterson looks political and problematic
Scot Peterson was negligent at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But was he criminally negligent? That is a dangerous legal stretch. Ten of the 11 charges filed Tuesday against the former Broward County Sheriff’s deputy presume Peterson could have saved...
read moreEditorial: If you know the D-Day story, share it, teach it.
Even the youngest soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, and who live among us today are well into their 90s, so the 75th anniversary of D-Day was the final big observance before the memory barrier — the line that separates events...
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Hartford Courant: Another mass shooting, another reason to ask what’s wrong with us
What will it take to stop this? Twelve people were murdered in a mass shooting in Virginia last Friday afternoon. The Virginia Beach community is now going through a process the people in Connecticut know all too well — remembering the lost, struggling with...
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John-Clark Levin: What we can learn from D-Day’s leaders
This year, the youngest draftees who invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944 are 90 years old. By now, our cultural understanding of D-Day focuses on the valor of those young men who fought and died on the beaches. The enduring image of the day is Robert F. Sargent’s...
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Youngstown Vindicator: Work remains when dealing with extremists
A bunch of white supremacists went to Dayton to foment hatred and, instead, were confronted by an overwhelming demonstration of love and camaraderie. But the presence of members of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan in a major city in Ohio was a stark reminder of the rise of...
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Editorial: Mueller’s reminder for 2020: The Russians did attack American democracy
Volume II is the blockbuster, the one still getting all the attention, pertaining as it does to the question of potential illegal activity by a president. But let’s not forget the Volume I findings of the Mueller report: how agents of the Russian government...
read moreEditorial: Robert Mueller is a man of too few words about Trump and obstruction
When the Justice Department announced Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller would make a public statement that morning, expectations soared that he would clarify ambiguities in his report about whether he and his staff thought President Donald Trump had...
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Editorial: Portman, Brown legislation ensures fallen soldiers’ tribute
A Battlefield Cross marker — made up of a helmet, a rifle and a pair of boots — is one of the most powerful tributes that can be paid to servicemen and women who died while fighting for our country. That’s why there was outrage three years ago when...
read moreEditorial: This SAT ‘adversity score’ merits a failing grade
Decisions about admission into college are based on a gamut of factors. Potentially among them: a student’s understanding of parabolas, perihelions and the Reconstruction — that is, his or her academic preparation and performance. But should those...
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Editorial: The FDA is on a collision course with the courts over imported execution drugs
The Justice Department has added another level of confusion to the nation’s already muddled capital punishment system, advising the Food and Drug Administration that it lacks the authority to regulate the importation of drugs used in lethal injections. As a...
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Editorial: Our trillion-dollar problem deserves bipartisan attention
Our nation is now staring at trillion-dollar annual deficits. The Congressional Budget Office in a report this month warned the nation once again that our yearly red ink could top $1 trillion as soon as next year. Our national debt is projected to grow faster than the...
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Latta right about ‘Equality Act’
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Equality Act, a bill that would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in housing, the workplace and public accommodations. A better term for it, however, would be the Inequality Act. Don’t get us wrong....
read moreEditorial: One way to end bickering about death penalty
The Supreme Court justices’ tempers are showing. In an unusual written exchange released Monday, conservative members of the court — divided over a Texas death penalty case — argued about whether the court was right to halt the execution of Patrick...
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John Grindrod: Humor and misunderstanding make strange bedfellows
As sure as I am that no chicken ever died of old age and Benjamin Buttons was never heard to say, “Well, I better do it now because I’m not getting any younger,” I’m certain when it comes to what makes us laugh, that’s as different as our...
Melissa Martin column: Ohio’s suicide rate alarming
Suicide is tragic and traumatizing. But, prevention, intervention, and postvention need to be consistently discussed in homes, schools, and communities. Whether city or country dwellers, suicide needs to be addressed. Countywide and statewide, suicide education needs...
Dick Polman: In defense of Biden’s switcheroo
H. L. Mencken, the famed crusty commentator, said one century ago: “A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears on the ground.” I thought of that quip the other day when former Vice President Joe Biden magically declared that...
Paying teachers what they’re worth is a two-way street
Bernie Sanders is confused. Again. He recently took to Twitter to opine that, “If we are a nation that can provide contracts to baseball players for hundreds of millions of dollars, don’t tell me we cannot pay teachers in this country the kinds of wages...
Joe Blundo: Poppy happy to have grandson running show
My new boss is utterly charming and often demanding. He gets people to meet his high expectations with a disarming blend of spontaneity, guilelessness and wide-eyed innocence: Of course he is asking for the moon! Is that unusual or something? He tends to speak in...
Jim Krumel: Watching baseball with grandpa
Kevin Huber, of Elida Road Tire Service, is a car guy. When a customer walks through the door, he may remember their vehicle before he does their name. “I will say to myself, ‘That guy owns a Dodge Charger,’ or ‘He’s a Ford F-150...
Kathleen Parker: The gift of laughter and a father’s legacy
WASHINGTON — My father died with a smile on his face. But, of course, he would. A few days earlier, as his wife, my sister and I gathered around his bed in the intensive care unit, I said, “I’ll bet he’s thinking right now, ‘I wish these...
Michael Reagan: Trump throws dirt in His own eye
What the heck was President Trump doing? What was he thinking when he told ABC’s star fake journalist George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday that if a foreign adversary offered him dirt on a political opponent he’d take a look at it before calling the FBI....
Opinion: What Should Congress Expect from USPS’ New ‘Business Plan’?
While there is clearly broad awareness of the U.S. Postal Service’s struggles, the puzzling financial reality for the institution and poor quality of service for consumers is that its fiscal chaos is getting worse. Since the current postal laws were enacted in...
Jim Krumel:
Tidbits from around the state: When it comes to marketing, few do it better than minor league baseball teams. Within hours of last Monday’s 4-plus magnitude earthquake near Cleveland, the Lake County Captains announced they were changing their name for one day...
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Letter: Looking out for our seniors
Saturday was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. To commemorate this day, communities in the United States, and throughout the world, sponsored events to raise awareness of what individuals and organizations can do to recognize the supportive services available to our...
Letter: Mike Miller in the morning missed
I was sorry to lose the local morning programming on WIMA radio recently. Mike Miller and staff provided a good overview of life and events going on in Lima and surrounding areas. I always learned something from the weekly interviews with City of Lima and Allen County...
Letter: A woman knows the risk
We have seen much on the news lately about Pro-Choice demonstrations against some of the new abortion laws. Pro-Choice maintains that the laws take away a woman’s right to make choices about her own body. Is that really correct? Nature’s design of and...
Letter: Lima using pagan symbol
What is the symbolism on the railroad overpass on East Vine Street and the I-75 overpass on State Route. 309? It’s a left-facing crescent moon with stars on the left and some kind of markings under or near the moon. The symbol is possibly most recognizable (in...
Letter: Bad dady was made much better
The reason I am writing this letter is to thank the checkout girl (Samantha) at Meijer’s for returning my wallet to the Service Desk where I accidentally left it recently. I am so thankful for her and the nice girls at the Service Desk for their kindness. It is...
Letter: Driving on left side of road again
I’ve heard it time and time again. This president does nothing but lies. Yet when asked, What are these lies,” I can never ever get a response. Recent leters in the Your View column are from puppets with their strings being pulled by the loony left media....
Letter: Funding cut hurts child care
Today, hundreds of kids in Allen County were dropped off for child care as their parents headed off to work or school. As a family child-care provider, I see firsthand how hard families work to ensure their children have a bright future. When parents have access to...
Letter: Global warming a global problem
Charles McConnell, President Obama’s Department of Energy assistant secretary stated, “All of the US annual emissions in 2025 will be offset by 3 weeks of Chinese emissions.” “Three Weeks!” In less than 6 years, China will produce 17...
Letter: Downtown Lima parking problem
My wife and I go to the Rally in the Square on Fridays. Each time this year the parking lot behind the stage is roped off so no one can park. Wednesday we went to the Civic Center kickoff for the summer concert series. The parking spaces on the first block of South...
Letter: Thank you, WWII veterans
In less than nine years the youngest veterans to have served during WW II will be 100 years old. Long before that date arrives, the vast majority of these men will have passed away. Over 16 million Americans served during WW II. For all of those who have passed away,...
