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Opinion.

Looking to the New Year

Editorials

As we wrap up one year and look hopefully ahead to the next, most in our region are looking forward to the possibility of peace, prosperity, success … all the good things that are possible when the blank slate of an entire year stretches out before us. Sure, we take some accountability by ...

Looking at Christmas, then and now

Columns

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central message, but have trouble communicating it. Like the secularists, they try to define it on their own terms rather than let God speak for Himself. The reason for Christmas ...

No, the Liberty incident was not Israeli treachery

Columns

For elements of the anti-Israel right, it’s a time when everything old is becoming new again. So, a half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War has renewed currency. Conspiratorial-minded influencers hostile to Israel like ...

Spending an evening navigating the dark streets of San Francisco

Columns

We were at my brother’s residence in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco — watching the college football playoffs — when my sister, who lives in San Francisco’s Richmond District, where I was planning on spending the night, texted us to let us know that the power was out in ...

Restore funding now

Editorials

Ohio’s elected representatives in Washington, D.C., are doing their best to understand and overcome a bizarre federal decision to suspend the state’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership award. U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, along with U.S. Reps. Max Miller, Michael Turner, Robert Latta, ...

The time has come for us to kill property taxes

Columns

The American dream of home ownership — the foundational building block of familial wealth — has been central to our culture for generations, but it’s slowly being killed off when it becomes clear that this dream has a catch: You never really own your home. Who does? Well first, the ...