The Ohio Press Network

3 days ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | Steve Cortes

POLLING: Americans are willing to disengage from the Black Sea standoffU.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear capabilities should compel a sensible analysis of where America’s focus, military assets, and limited fiscal investments should be directed. Even armed forces as vast as America’s cannot be everywhere, nor can our debt-laden nation afford multiple massive global commitments at once. kAm$@[ 2C6 p>6C:42?D C625J E@ 67764E:G6=J H2=< 2H2J 7C@> E96 DE2?5@77 36EH66? !FE:?

4 days ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | Bill King

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean more famine, more poverty, more environmental destruction. But something unexpected has happened. The demographic math has changed. And the United Nations, the world’s most cited authority on population forecasts, has taken notice.

4 days ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | John Tamny

The C grade Fred Smith received from a Yale professor about his vision for an overnight delivery service is much less remarkable than is assumed. Naturally Smith got a C. Rest assured that most investors gave him an F, assuming they bothered to hear Smith’s pitch in the first place. Evidence supporting the above claim can be found in the billions Smith left behind, along with the market cap ($54 billion) of FedEx itself.

1 week ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | J.D. Davidson

Ohio motorists are just a signature away from not having to worry about municipalities using tickets to prop up their budgets. The House and Senate agreed on legislation banning law enforcement officials or agencies from meeting an arrest or citation quota, leaving only a signature needed from Gov. Mike DeWine to make it law. kAm“~FC =2H 6?7@C46>6?E AC@76DD:@?2=D 2C6 ?@E C6G6?F6 86?6C2E@CD[ ” D2:5 #6A] z6G:? |:==6C[ #\}6H2C<] Q%9:D =68:D=2E:@?

1 week ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | J.D. Davidson

The federal government plans to spend $10 million in taxpayer funds on a five-year study on the health impact from the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The money and the study came at the urging of Vice President J.D. Vance, who worked with former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown on train safety and other East Palestine legislation in the months and years following the derailment and subsequent toxic chemical release.