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Editorials

Editorial

Measure for accuracy

State's standards for assessing schools could use a little tweaking

The Hilliard City School District's frustration is understandable: Because its growing population of limited-English and disabled students isn't improving enough on state standardized tests, the district's effectiveness rating on the state report card has dropped, even though its students overall perform as well or better than those in less-diverse districts that were given higher ratings.

Editorial

Paradise could be lost

Indonesia must ensure 'Garden of Eden' remains protected

In this age when it's common for humans, or their robotic agents, to explore worlds far beyond their own, from the vastness of space to the deep darkness beneath the sea, it seems impossible that there are unexplored places on Earth's surface.

Op-ed column

George F. Will: Senate's 'stoplight' is in national interest

The Senate, which fancies itself the world's most exclusive club, has its Sir John Hawkins.

Op-ed column: Kathleen Parker: Havana-Tehran connection bodes another Caribbean crisis for America (Feb. 13)
Is mandating health care for employees good idea?: William Burga: Yes: Big, profitable companies that shirk this duty hurt the taxpayers (Feb. 13)
Is mandating health care for employees good idea?: Scott Lee: No: Targeting Wal-Mart stifles job creation and increases consumer costs (Feb. 13)
Letter: Historical society caused its own problems (Feb. 13)
Letter: Cuts would hamper home health care (Feb. 13)
Letter: Ex-superintendent sure to help district (Feb. 13)
Letter: Relationship with Cuba would serve the U.S. (Feb. 13)
Letter: Change in count could elevate diabetes cases (Feb. 13)
NON SEQUITUR (Feb. 13)
Forum cartoon (Feb. 13)
Op-ed Column: Joe Hallett: Sprawl issues could give lift to Democrats (Feb. 12)
Editorial: End the hypocrisy (Feb. 12)
Congress should balance the books with spending cuts or by eliminating Bush's tax cuts
Editorial: Still serving Ohioans (Feb. 12)
Taft's budget chief will be an asset to OSU in his new post
Op-ed Column: David S. Broder: Bush's war spending has hurt states, undercut domestic programs (Feb. 12)
Op-ed Column: Deborah Kendrick: Civil-rights battlefield goes beyond color (Feb. 12)
Op-ed Column: Jonathan Riskind: Glib Boehner may now need a broader view (Feb. 12)
Letter: Civil-justice system at risk under Bush (Feb. 12)
Letter: Raises show COTA has lost touch with riders (Feb. 12)
Letter: OSU could follow state board's lousy example (Feb. 12)
Letter: GOP gubernatorial hopefuls ignore women (Feb. 12)
Letter: Rudeness goes with phone-sales territory (Feb. 12)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 12)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 12)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 12)
Editorial: The right remedy (Feb. 11)
Senate Bill 185 necessary to protect Ohioans from tide of mortgage foreclosures
Editorial: Steer clear (Feb. 11)
Legal review of state's science standards might save Ohio some trouble
Op-ed Column: Luis M. Proenza: Universities face a transition challenge (Feb. 11)
Op-ed Column: William Bainbridge: Home-schooling data need close look (Feb. 11)
Letter: Laws are needed to keep hunters away from houses (Feb. 11)
Letter: Violent sexual predators should be locked up for life (Feb. 11)
Letter: Cutting teachers, school day will hurt many students (Feb. 11)
Letter: Quit the foolish bickering and start concentrating on doing God's work (Feb. 11)
Letter: Respect for religion isn't the issue (Feb. 11)
Letter: Eye-for-an-eye strategy for terror is doomed to failure (Feb. 11)
Editorial: Be prepared (Feb. 10)
Sheriff is right to start training deputies to deal with mentally ill people
Editorial: Speaking ill (Feb. 10)
Attacking president during King funeral was inappropriate
Editorial: Helping pay Ohio's bills (Feb. 10)
Ads in car-registration notices need second look
Op-ed Column: Rowland Nethaway: Fundamentalists don't want to abide secular societies (Feb. 10)
Letter: '04 vote on Issue 1 hurt many Ohio families (Feb. 10)
Letter: Cartoon flap serves to educate non-Muslims (Feb. 10)
Letter: Course requirements may hurt participation (Feb. 10)
Letter: IDs are small price to pay to cast ballot (Feb. 10)
Letter: Poor, elderly will pass up ID required at poll (Feb. 10)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 10)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 10)
Editorial: Hamas has to change (Feb. 9)
West shouldn't subsidize Palestinian regime that rejects Israel's rights
Editorial: Who's watching the kids? (Feb. 9)
Shocking stories of in-school sex show that high-school students lacked supervision
Op-ed column: Asma Mobin-Uddin: Exercising free speech doesn't mean spreading hatred is acceptable (Feb. 9)
Op-ed column: Kathleen Parker: Let's stop being cowards over cartoons (Feb. 9)
Letter: Firefighters deserve same pension as police (Feb. 9)
Letter: Tax-exempt churches benefit our country (Feb. 9)
Letter: Headlines are problem at all newspapers (Feb. 9)
Letter: Reviewer overlooked concert venue in '76 (Feb. 9)
Letter: Jobs there for those who want to work (Feb. 9)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 9)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 9)
Editorial: Eruptions of anger (Feb. 8)
Reaction to offensive cartoons illustrates gulf between West, Muslim nations
Editorial: The correct approach (Feb. 8)
Ohio University is right to tell parents about students' drug and alcohol offenses
Op-ed column: Gwynne Dyer: Preventable storm plays into hands of radicals (Feb. 8)
Op-ed column: Trudy Rubin: Democracy: Islamists just don't get it (Feb. 8)
Op-ed column: Eugene Robinson: Cartoons underscore culture war that neither side understands well (Feb. 8)
Letter: Hard to figure drug prices under Part D (Feb. 8)
Letter: Report on warmest year ignores vital data (Feb. 8)
Letter: Abramoff's activities raise questions (Feb. 8)
Letter: Inmate's situation mirrors Schiavo case (Feb. 8)
Letter: U.S. needs to jump in on Green Revolution (Feb. 8)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 8)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 8)
Editorial: Another tough decision (Feb. 7)
Budget gaps won't allow Columbus schools to adopt every plan on drawing board
Editorial: No nukes in Iran (Feb. 7)
United Nations needs to find its spine before risky situation grows worse
Op-ed column: Robyn Blumner: Moderate voices need to be heard in the nation's religious arena (Feb. 7)
Op-ed column: Rowland Nethaway: Energy policy will fail without broad compromises (Feb. 7)
Letter: Pryce misled readers on wiretap program (Feb. 7)
Letter: Halliburton should be removed from Iraq (Feb. 7)
Letter: Local companies need dose of phone etiquette (Feb. 7)
Letter: TeenScreen has made suicide problem worse (Feb. 7)
Letter: Glory of Pluto launch unites science, faith (Feb. 7)
Letter: South Side always gets short end of the stick (Feb. 7)
NON SEQUITUR (Feb. 7)
Forum cartoon (Feb. 7)
Editorial: Count hours, not days (Feb. 6)
Bill would give schools maximum flexibility for meeting state minimums
Editorial: The politics of tragedy (Feb. 6)
Any new safety rules for coal mines should be based on sound analysis
Editorial: State buttinskies (Feb. 6)
New law treads on cities' rights to set residency rules for municipal employees
Op-ed column: Trudy Rubin: U.S. myopia on Hamas is incredible (Feb. 6)
Op-ed column: Is Medicare drug plan headed in the right direction? (Feb. 6)
Yes: Start-up was rough, but people are being helped as problems are solved
Op-ed column: Is Medicare drug plan headed in the right direction? (Feb. 6)
No: The only fix that's in is the one benefiting insurers, pharmaceutical companies
Op-ed column: Gwynne Dyer: Bush's oil plan needs a reality check (Feb. 6)
Letter: Columnist misunderstands Ohio Patriot Act (Feb. 6)
Letter: King was uniter, not divider, of all people (Feb. 6)
Letter: Improved newspaper solid, entertaining (Feb. 6)
Letter: Pound trip reinforces story of rejected dogs (Feb. 6)
Letter: Forum page cartoon was in poor taste (Feb. 6)
NON SEQUITUR (Feb. 6)
Forum cartoon (Feb. 6)
Editorial: Don't leave home without it (Feb. 5)
Voter-ID rule makes sense, but state should help by issuing free cards
Editorial: Let there be clarity (Feb. 5)
As churches play bigger role in politics, IRS should educate and enforce fairly
Op-ed Column: Benjamin J. Marrison: 2,400 readers will get chance to grade us (Feb. 5)
Op-ed Column: David S. Broder: Republicans need to seize the chance for real reforms (Feb. 5)
Op-ed Column: Joe Hallett: Ohio, GOP would benefit from best-man-wins gubernatorial primary (Feb. 5)
Op-ed Column: Jonathan Riskind: State of Union is somewhere in between the bipartisan bias (Feb. 5)
Letter: Ending split sessions was right thing to do (Feb. 5)
Letter: Fight to keep Ohio historical exhibit intact (Feb. 5)
Letter: Many top companies help domestic partners (Feb. 5)
Letter: Parsley needs to brush up on his theology (Feb. 5)
Letter: Global warming cause of myriad problems (Feb. 5)
Letter: Nation's real crime is war, not a T-shirt (Feb. 5)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 5)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 5)
Editorial: Another safety net (Feb. 4)
Mental-health screenings for high-schoolers could save lives
Editorial: An ounce of prevention (Feb. 4)
Anorexia, bulimia affect increasingly broad segments of population
Op-ed Column: David F. Axelrod: Scales of justice tipping toward prosecution (Feb. 4)
Op-ed Column: Leonard Pitts Jr.: Family's avarice smears the King legacy (Feb. 4)
Letter: Schools, work force need a strong dose of creativity (Feb. 4)
Letter: Kids who aren't college-bound need career options, too (Feb. 4)
Letter: Bike trails benefit more than riders (Feb. 4)
Letter: Commissioners had better choices than enacting new tax (Feb. 4)
Letter: Fire Division has trimmed overtime (Feb. 4)
Letter: Progress being made on new stadium (Feb. 4)
Editorial Cartoon (Feb. 4)
Editorial: In search of the truth (Feb. 3)
Bill would give Ohio's inmates right to seek critical DNA testing
Editorial: Indefensible actions (Feb. 3)
Mismanagement in Iraq, prime-vendor purchases examples of Pentagon waste
Op-ed Columns: Eugene Robinson: With both Kings gone, black leaders have an even-more-glaring deficit (Feb. 3)
Op-ed Columns: Ellen Goodman: Baby boomers' dichotomy: Halftime show or end zone? (Feb. 3)
Letter: Advocate misrepresented stem-cell bill (Feb. 3)
Letter: Tow cars parked in space for handicapped (Feb. 3)
Letter: Conditions embarrass this lifelong Ohioan (Feb. 3)
Letter: Lott should remember plight of constituents (Feb. 3)
Letter: Article on closing of bookstore bittersweet (Feb. 3)
Letter: District can continue to teach intelligent design (Feb. 3)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 3)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 3)
Editorial: Naming the enemy (Feb. 2)
Muslim group off base in attempt to edit president's speech
Editorial: The China syndrome (Feb. 2)
Google among companies compromising to reach huge and growing market
Op-ed Column: George F. Will: Health-care issue bodes an even bigger government (Feb. 2)
Op-ed Column: David S. Broder: Amid the cynicism, some of Bush's proposals have potential to succeed (Feb. 2)
Letter: Health-care law good only for killing jobs (Feb. 2)
Letter: Reasoning is weak for circumcision (Feb. 2)
Letter: White House skips wartime measures (Feb. 2)
Letter: Bush right to promote more tech training (Feb. 2)
Letter: How would King view Katrina aftermath? (Feb. 2)
Letter: State of Union speech full of false concern (Feb. 2)
Non Sequitur (Feb. 2)
Forum Cartoon (Feb. 2)
Editorial: The bottom line (Feb. 1)
Bush's address plotted no course away from national fiscal disaster
Editorial: Credit where it's due (Feb. 1)
New rules should spur those who abuse charge cards to get out of debt
Op-ed column: Robert D. Novak: McCain, Coburn rightly target earmarks (Feb. 1)
Letter: Task force ignored schools' achievements (Feb. 1)
Letter: Poor decision let city, officer off the hook (Feb. 1)
Letter: Doctors have drugs for low-income patients (Feb. 1)
Letter: City Center pet shop is a terrible idea (Feb. 1)
Letter: Hard to see anything good in Ney's behavior (Feb. 1)
Letter: Interesting choice of words in war news (Feb. 1)
NON SEQUITUR (Feb. 1)
Forum cartoon (Feb. 1)
Editorial: Another fine mess (Jan. 31)
Rollout of Medicare's prescription-drug plans should have gone smoother
Editorial: Remember safety (Jan. 31)
Flurry of mine-safety actions shouldn't lead to complacency
Op-ed column: Fareed Zakaria: Mideast elections won't bring democracy until voices of freedom can be heard (Jan. 31)
Op-ed column: Clarence Page: Courageous journalists need support (Jan. 31)
Op-ed column: James W. Coons: Greenspan's many words seldom led to clarification (Jan. 31)
Letter: Get health coverage off backs of companies (Jan. 31)
Letter: Smoke-alarm stats were misinterpreted (Jan. 31)
Letter: Teachers' wardrobes change with the times (Jan. 31)
Letter: 'Dispatch' had role in state's decline (Jan. 31)
Letter: Homeland security starts at the border (Jan. 31)
Letter: Rowdy coffee drinkers should act their age (Jan. 31)
NON SEQUITUR (Jan. 31)
Forum cartoon (Jan. 31)

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