Ohio State's chickens are coming home to roost
I’m a lifelong fan of Ohio State University. My parents both went there and I attended for four years while…
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Ohio’s school phone ban example shows mixed results
Cellphones are everywhere – including, until recently, in schools. Since 2023, at least 29 states, including New York, Vermont, Florida…
Could a higher minimum wage be an answer to Ohio’s affordability challenges?
Last month, the state of Michigan’s minimum wage increased to $13.73 per hour, $2.73 higher than Ohio’s minimum wage of…
What we can learn from the Dayton, Ohio incident and why elections must follow the U.S. Constitution
Something fishy brought federal agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to a school in Dayton last week. They…
Ohio GOP legislation threatens First Amendment
State Rep. Jamie Callender, come on down! Join the rest of your bullying GOP colleagues as they continue the assault…
Politicians show Ohio voters their true colors
Social media erupted last week over Democratic Ohio attorney general candidate Elliot Forhan’s 40-second video post. “I want to tell…
Immigration slowdown threatens Ohio’s future
For one reason or another, I have been writing and thinking a lot about population growth lately. An important contributor…
Ramaswamy’s proposed rule for public schools highlights Ohio’s lack of rules for private schools
It’s hard for me to offer a thank you to Vivek Ramaswamy for anything, but he truly deserves our thanks…
Don’t turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who’ve built a life in Ohio
The termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the United States is set to take effect on Feb.…
Enough is enough with ICE
With heavy snow predicted this past weekend, I attempted to avoid the weather entirely by moving up a planned visit…
What can we tell from how Ohio politicians reacted to the ICE killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota?
Thank God we have video. – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. In less than three weeks of the new year armed…
The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ may mean the end of food assistance in Ohio
Last year, Congress rushed to push through all of the president’s wish list as H.R. 1, the “Big Beautiful Bill…
Keep Springfield, Ohio peaceful. It doesn’t need a campaign of state violence, vengeance, and hate
During the 2024 Election, JD Vance and Donald Trump told disgusting, racist lies about Haitians in Springfield and made the…
Springfield, Ohio awaits masked thugs out to brutalize neighbors and stomp on the Bill of Rights
Any day now a swarm of armed state police dressed for war could descend on a metropolitan area in southwest…
Yes please, get mad about fraud and corruption, but don’t be a political-hack hypocrite about it
Is public fraud infuriating? Yes. Is political corruption an insidious, destabilizing debasement of the public trust and the public good?…
Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes
JD Vance famously admitted he was willing “to create stories” to attract media attention during the 2024 presidential campaign. It…
Why are we fracking Ohio’s only national forest?
The acreages that make up the Wayne National Forest in Southeastern Ohio are a patchwork of land parcels which lie…
The myth of the job-stealing, welfare-leeching immigrant
One of the most famous thought experiments in quantum mechanics is called Schrödinger’s cat. Devised by Erwin Schrödinger, it illustrates…
Sports stadium deals hand even more taxpayer money to billionaires
When Washington, D.C., agreed to hand over billions in land and tax breaks for a new Commanders football stadium, experts…
Is Ohio’s population decline overrated?
According to the Ohio Department of Development, Ohio’s population will shrink from 11.8 million people in 2020 to 11.1 million…