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Editorials

Eliminating Taxes in Ohio

Since 1971 Ohioans have paid a state income tax. This year, Republican lawmakers have introduced bills that would eliminate that and the commercial activities tax. Should those bills be passed, both the state income tax and commercial activities tax would be eliminated by 2030, with a ...

Veto Needed on House Bill 4850

Only in government can you pass legislation that is clearly flawed, with some vague promise to fix it in the future. When it comes to natural gas valuations, mineral owners and county governments in our region had best be prepared for a continuation of the last two years, where the West ...

Expanding Ohio’s Rail

Last month, officials with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission heard an encouraging report on the potential in Amtrak’s plans for the Buckeye State. According to the Columbus Dispatch, an economic impact study on a proposed Amtrak route that would serve Columbus shows the investment ...

Protecting Children In Mountain State

Lawmakers made some good decisions regarding the state House Education Committee’s substitute for House Bill 5180. They reinstated a requirement that those providing home instruction to students must have a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent. They removed a section that would have ...

Local Control Important

Some Ohio lawmakers need to consider their actions, as they continue to show they are uninterested in allowing families, doctors, schools, or even local governments to make their own decisions. In their most recent override of one of Gov. Mike DeWine’s vetoes, legislators stopped local ...

Congress Must Act on Railroad Reform

There was more than a grain of truth in some critics’ assertion that President Joe Biden’s arrival in East Palestine, Ohio last Friday was nothing more than a campaign stop that came a year too late to do any real good for residents of that community. Nevertheless, he did visit and praised ...