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Opinion.

Don’t let scammers win

Editorials

Nearly all of us have been on the receiving end of an attempt to scam us out of our hard-earned money — particularly in the digital age. Utility scams are fairly common, and many of us probably think we know how to sniff them out. Still, according to AEP Ohio, more than 2,000 scam attempts ...

Remember the more important focus this week

Columns

During the past two weeks, as the national press and Democrats have cared deeply about Jeffrey Epstein and political buzz has amplified U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lurch leftward, the more Americans are offline. And the more they spend away from the constant Sturm und Drang of 24-hour ...

Thankful to be free from back pain this holiday

Columns

Reflecting on gratitude for this holiday, I want to highlight something that can be shared with the wider world. Last year at this time, I focused on reasons to be thankful despite Donald Trump’s reelection: Trump ran on promises he cannot possibly fulfill. He swore to reduce prices and ...

A sobering economic view

Editorials

A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland delivered some unsettling news as we roll toward the holiday season. Indicators suggest there is a 24% chance the U.S. economy was in recession last month. The Cleveland Fed represents Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and ...

Panicked POTUS is still flailing around

Columns

It’s a pretty reliable rule of thumb that when President Donald Trump calls something a “hoax,” it’s true. He insists that the strong indication, which seems likelier by the week, that he participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s exploitative exploits is another hoax. Assume that on this ...

Republicans have a failure to communicate

Columns

In the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” the “Captain” says to Luke (Paul Newman) “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The same could be said of the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress. While they have much to brag about — from a closed border, the ...