Opinion
People look for ways to reinvent themselves
Earlier this year, WYSO-FM (91.3), the public radio station in Yellow Springs, embarked upon an ambitious storytelling project with Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, the team of local documentary makers well-known for “The Last Truck,” their story of the closing of the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine. The station’s ...
A little humor
Some favorite topics of editorial cartoonists in recent days are gun legislation, Obama's budget proposal and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Click through our gallery of cartoons to see what Mike Peters and others have to say.
Fresh ideas
From Pacific Standard online magazine: “Is Facebook a particularly powerful medium to spread racist messages? That’s the disturbing implication of a newly published study. … (Two pyschologists argue that) heavy users log onto the site in search of social inclusion rather than information — and as such, they’re prone to ...
A red-carpet bombing to save all the girls
The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects of a Taliban bullet to the head, captures the confluence of feminine power assembled here to “lean on” the world to ...
S. Carolina’s Sanford is back, so let’s get caught up
It’s kind of nice to have Mark Sanford back. Perhaps not if you’re from South Carolina. It is my strong impression that many South Carolinians are tired of their former governor, who so famously snuck off to Argentina for some extramarital recreation while his aides claimed he was camping on ...
Local government, health care costs and guns
Letters to the editorTownships are ‘responsive, efficient’In response to the March 31 “Talking with ex-lawmaker Gene Krebs” Q&A: Despite Gene Krebs’ experience at all levels of government, he presents an unscientific and skewed vision of local government in Ohio.He either hasn’t read the Wendell Cox report (“Local Democracy in Ohio: ...
Commitment to diversity stops at pro-choice group
We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so. Its “Diversity and Inclusion Statement,” a classic of the genre, says the university is “committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion … by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of students.” Hopkins has an Office of ...
Have conservatives been ‘stabbed in the back’ by the GOP?
Last week we sat down with several area conservative leaders who last month signed their names to a “statement of rejection,” directed at many Ohio Republican officeholders. The statement, which attracted widespread attention across the state, plainly stated, “We will not accept this leadership which is inconsistent with the principals ...
Fresh ideas
From NewStatesman.com: “According to a recent paper by the economist Andreas Wagener, people are twice as likely to cough during a concert as at other times. Furthermore, they are more likely to cough during modern, atonal music than during better-known repertoire and they cough more during slow or quiet passages ...
My 2016 prediction: It will be Clinton vs. Christie
Predictions are dicey, but here goes: Hillary Clinton, the Evita of the Ozarks, will be Democrats’ 2016 nominee for president. And a Clinton candidacy may position Gov. John Kasich or Sen. Rob Portman for a slot on a 2016 Republican ticket likely led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The ...
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