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Editorials

Trends are cause for alarm

We’re becoming a country more to the liking of fictional Judge Elihu Smails. Smails, portrayed by the inimitable Ted Knight in the 1980 movie “Caddyshack,” ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 8:13 am

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Will criminal charges in OU death prompt change?

Whatever else Ohio University students learn this year, one of the most important lessons was delivered Monday by Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn in the ... Read more

by Other Views, Saturday, November 30, 2019 10:23 am

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Still time to do what is right

Faced with a troubling outbreak of a mysterious vaping-related illness and the skyrocketing use of electronic cigarettes among teens, President Trump announced in September that ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:36 am

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Don’t be passin’ if flashin’

You see the school bus coming toward you slowing down. The stop sign arm is slowly coming out, but you know you’re running late. What ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 8:38 am

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Don’t believe the ads

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 ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:42 am

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Keep pressure on Brazil

Kudos are in order for world leaders who reacted quickly to forest fires in the Amazon that are so intense soot-darkened skies have turned day ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, September 3, 2019 8:01 am

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Program needed by many

Congress spoke a year ago. Democrats and Republicans joined in approving a massive farm bill that included setting the funding and parameters of the federal ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, August 6, 2019 8:29 am

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Benefits of science at work

In the vein of conducting a scientific experiment, COSI President and CEO Frederic Bertley sought to answer a question: How can we get local individuals ... Read more

by Other Views, Thursday, July 25, 2019 9:00 am

Editorials

Keep Daylight Saving Time year round

Daylight saving time does not save any daylight. There’s the same amount no matter what the clock says. The concept has been around since World ... Read more

by Other Views, Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:37 am

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Officials right to fight Mount Carmel problems

Officials at Mount Carmel Health System near Columbus appear to be working hard to correct the problems that made possible the deaths of at least ... Read more

by Other Views, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:15 am

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Perot made impact

Ross Perot was not a large man: barely 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and maybe 150 pounds. But he was a giant. Perot died in ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:02 am

Editorials

Missed economic chances

Raise a glass to the longest economic expansion in modern American history. A full decade has passed since the end of the last recession, in ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 10:05 am

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Court ruled in error

The Los Angeles Times on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to try defendants on the state and federal level for the same offense: The U.S. ... Read more

by Other Views, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 12:06 pm

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Cyberattack is major cause for concern

Major hacks of facial-recognition data have long seemed like an inevitability, but that does not make the recent breach of a U.S. Customs and Border ... Read more

by Other Views, Friday, June 21, 2019 8:50 am

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Ohio campaign may prevent stillbirths

Across the country, one in 167 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth. That translates to a fetal mortality rate in the U.S. of about 3.98 per ... Read more