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Opinion

Ohio must be locked in on fixing state prison staffing

Editorial

According to a recent report by the Dayton Daily News, the Ohio state prison system was short more than 500 corrections officers at the end of last year. The Daily News conducted its investigation because Dayton Correctional Institution has the highest rate of openings, at 18.8%. Lebanon ...

Life

Editorial

Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, Chester, W.Va. In the Gospel of John 14:6 Jesus declared, “I am the way, and the truth and the life.” Recently, I was thinking that life really is an adventure that sometimes gets us into things way over our head. Sometimes the trouble finds us through ...

Advocates, state officials must protect our child care system

Editorial

Groundwork Ohio is among the organizations that has signed on to a letter from child care groups across the country, asking the federal Administration for Children and Families to continue funding the Child Care Development Block Grant and other resources. Though a federal judge has ...

Protect yourself and your family — get your flu shot

Editorial

If it seems as though illness has been more prevalent in your school, church, office and other circles this winter, you’re not imagining things. According to Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, this year’s flu season has seen a stronger beginning than is ...

Husted, Brown both count on Valley vote in Senate race

Editorial

Editor’s Note: The following column was published in the Vindicator Jan. 16. Neither U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican, nor his Democratic challenger, Sherrod Brown, a former 18-year senator, lack confidence when it comes to believing they will win Mahoning and Trumbull counties during the ...

O’Connor continues to protect judiciary from politicization

Editorial

Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice and lieutenant governor Maureen O’Connor is certainly not resting quietly in her retirement. Though she left her seat on the court in 2022 because of age limits, she is still active in matters such as redistricting and protecting the judiciary from ...