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Take redistricting project seriously

Editorials

Ohio’s Redistricting Commission is, again, gearing up to redraw the state’s congressional map — ahead of the 2026 elections. It’s an effort meant to stand for the next three elections. Voters already voiced their preference against one proposed redistricting reform measure last year. Gov. Mike DeWine’s idea for a different model also has been ignored. And so we are back where we started — recall that the redistricting commission essentially refused to do its job last time it was asked, caring little for the obviousness of their intent. First, of course, the Republican ...

Changing view of immigrants

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: As President Donald Trump continues his all-out assault against immigrants, particularly those who have entered our great country from our southern border, by securing $170 billion for the mass deportation of migrants, as a result of the passing of what he, illogically, deems to be his Big, Beautiful Bill, which will include the hiring of 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as well as 8,000 additional Border Patrol agents, in order to resolve what has been described as our nation’s border crisis. As a result of the dramatic funding increase for ICE, ...

Guest column/Artificial intelligence is upending the job market

Local Columns

Today’s college graduates face a startling reality. Many of the jobs they were hoping for are rapidly disappearing because of artificial intelligence. As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame recently observed, “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code. Well, AI is coming for the coders.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg agrees. He predicts that most Meta code will be written by AI in the next 12-18 months. The great disruption is here. Many entry-level office jobs — from coders and analysts to researchers and writers — are being eaten by AI. The unemployment ...

Sales tax holidays a chance to save

Editorials

Ohio and West Virginia are preparing to welcome back-to-school shoppers with sales tax holidays. And while residents of both states have become accustomed to that yearly break as they prepare to send their children back to the classrooms, Ohioans will see one big change: This year’s tax holiday has been expanded, and will run from midnight Friday through 11:59 p.m. Aug. 14. That’s two weeks for families to take advantage of tax-free purchases — made in-person or online — of eligible items up to $500. West Virginians, meanwhile, will get their sales tax holiday from midnight ...

The plot thins

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I love good old-fashioned murder mystery. In a good police procedural, the detective always gets the killer in the end, but real life isn’t so tidy. There isn’t always a smoking gun. Sometimes, all you’ve got is a stack of circumstantial evidence — and that’s often enough. Maybe there’s no footage of the killer pulling the trigger, but the suspect — trying to be clever — releases a video proving he wasn’t near the body at the time of death. Then we learn the video was tampered with, and there’s a missing chunk of metadata. Remember: One missing ...

A letter to my grandson, please remember ...

Local Columns

Dear Layne: There is something I would like for you to know, something no one else may ever say that I believe you should hear at least once in your life. As your grandma, I feel it is my responsibility to let you in on a secret. And no, I am not trying to persuade you into changing who you are or who you will one day become. That wouldn’t be fair. Just please know this … in case no one else ever tells you. You are growing up in a completely different society than the one I grew up in, different than the ones your grandparents and great-grandparents lived through, ...