Editorials
False charges
If Lima Councilman Tommy Pitts had any evidence of administration officials sharing civil service test questions, he should have shared it. There are important factors to such an allegation: when the occurrences took place and who did it, for example....
Realistic approach
The Bush administration waited too long to take part in talks aimed at stopping Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. With less than six months remaining in President Bush's second term, the administration doesn't have much time to leave its mark on six-nation...
A win either way
Now knowing both choices Ohio voters have as their next attorney general, the winners already seem clear. Whether Allen County native and Republican D. Michael Crites or current state Treasurer Rich Cordray receives the most votes in November, Ohioans...
Afghanistan calls
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's visit to Afghanistan should help refocus Americans' attention on our other war. It is attention that is very much needed. There is no question that the far larger American-led effort in Iraq...
Needless fighting
The civil service discussion going on in Lima City Council - it's not always been civil or a discussion - looks as if it does belong with the Charter Review Committee. That said, we suggest looking at things for a moment from the perspective of Councilman...
School talks
He doesn't plan to lock anyone in a room until they come up with a plan - as he said about school funding during the campaign - but Gov. Ted Strickland is ready to discuss education. It's about time. Ohio's first-term Democratic governor campaigned on...
Time to leave
Apparently this isn't quite the kind of Iraqi democracy the Bush administration had in mind. Earlier this month, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki let it be known that the Iraqi government would be reluctant to sign an agreement formalizing the status...
A laughing matter
In June, the rate of inflation climbed to its highest level in 17 years, so the feds reported. Add that bit of sour news to mounting foreclosures, higher unemployment and stagnant growth, and you understand why so many Americans have lost their sense...
Government tab paid at long last
In the midst of a campaign in which both major-party candidates are merrily promising more things the government is going to do for you and solemnly delineating the real and (mostly) imagined threats from which government is going to protect you, it might...
Toward overkill
The Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission formalized earlier this month a working agreement that had been in place since the bailout of Bear Stearns investment bank in March, the first time in its history that the Fed had made its...
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