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Articles Written by: DICK FARRELL
A reader approached me after I had written last Sunday about the Wall Street Journal’s editorial comparing Ohio and Texas and concluding that it was Ohio, not the North America Free Trade Act, that was the cause of its economic woes.
The reader wanted ...
It’s quiet around these parts again. There are no politicians or spouses hanging around Ohio, running from town to town, whipping up support and hoping to get your vote by playing to your fears, which, as we know, are mostly economic.
The nation’s eyes ...
Tuesday’s election arguably might be the most important one in the history of Dover City Schools.
The school district is asking for an additional operating levy worth 7.9 mills that would have to be renewed after five years. Without voter approval of ...
We think it’s really nice that the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns have sent some well-known supporters to Tuscarawas County over the last week or so as the more-important-than-ever Ohio primary draws near.
We’d like to see the real deals, ...
OK, it’s the media’s fault. There, I said it. Blame us for everything. It’s our fault that Britney Spears is in meltdown. It’s our fault that so many people are in debt up to their eyeballs and are losing their homes. It’s our fault that we haven’t ...
If I had to earn a living making predictions, I’d probably be penniless.
Back on Nov. 22, I said in this space that Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani would win their respective parties’ nominations. Obviously that didn’t work out.
Giuliani dropped out ...
News last week that Ohio is facing a deficit in the range of $733 million to $1.9 billion by June 30, 2009, should be disconcerting to those who are hoping for a school funding fix at the state level.
The fix that most people are looking for is one ...
Last week was a tough one for those of us in the media. Everyone, it seemed, was blaming us for helping to create a fear or panic in the marketplace, causing a downturn in the economy and a hurt on everyone’s wallets and portfolios.
Yes, they accused ...
People who know me might think otherwise, but I’m a fairly easy-going type of guy. I’ll admit, however, that every once in awhile someone flips on the boil switch in my blood.
It happened last week – twice. First, I got an e-mail presumably from a ...
OK, Gov. Ted Strickland, it’s 2008. The honeymoon is over. It’s time to start reshaping this state so it survives at least into the next decade if not century.
Ohio is in a pitiful mess.
We spend too much on entitlement programs, prisons and government ...
