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Disability Rights Ohio needs to be able to access records

A few years back, there was a trend among legislators to change laws regarding public records in a way they claimed was meant to better protect victims, especially children and particularly vulnerable older victims. The interpretation of those laws, however, has turned out to protect not the victims, but those who may have committed crimes (or at the very least been negligent) against those victims. When news organizations, advocacy groups or even other government bodies request documents that might help them better understand the details of incidents that, for example, result in the ...

Let’s make trick-or-treating safe for all of our children

Halloween-related happenings across our communities are well underway. Of course the big day for kids will be here soon. Most everyone will be celebrating trick-or-treating on Oct. 31. What is nice is that it doesn’t fall on a school night this year — it’s a Friday. And if the weather cooperates hundreds of children will gleefully be frocking out and about in search of goodies. In every costume imaginable! Conscientious parents, grandparents and guardians already practice year-round safety when it comes to loves ones. But we would be remiss not to offer some safety tips. We ...

Ohio has more pressing matters than this issue

First, state lawmakers wanted to make sure teachers understood what they were not allowed to teach; now they are introducing the bits they do want teachers to include, despite repeated insistence they are not serving their own personal agendas by doing so. Ohio educators at all levels have responded with such fear to what is being called the “anti-DEI law,” that institutions such as Ohio State University are reportedly even banning some statements that acknowledge lands historically occupied by Native Americans. The university is asking its educators not to present facts to its ...

Domestic violence report should trouble Ohioans

A recent Ohio Domestic Violence Network report included some horrifying data that should make every resident want to get to the root of a deadly trend. The network has seen an incredible 37% increase in domestic violence deaths in the state over the past year. According to a report by WSYX, 157 were killed in 108 domestic violence cases in the state between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. Lisa DeGeeter, a spokeswoman for ODVN, told the news station the increased number of cases to go through this year was stunning, as was “how much more violent and brutal the cases were.” Victims ...

Young Ohioans need credit card counseling

For some Ohioans, use of credit cards is a carefully planned luxury — perhaps used to ensure the accumulation of lots of airline or hotel points — for purchases that can be paid off within a month or two. But for residents between the ages of 18 and 34, a recent analysis of Federal Reserve data shows the use of credit cards feels like a necessity — and one that is causing them to rack up higher-than-average levels of debt. Along with those high levels of debt come high levels of delinquency, according to a report on the data by the Ohio Capital Journal. “For millions of ...

Let’s be honest when it comes to aging, driving

Every once in a while, politicians will float the question of whether drivers should have to retake their tests as a requirement for license renewal after a certain age. With age comes the possibility of reduced vision, perhaps hearing loss, reduced reflexes and other changes we all laugh about as a fact of life until someone mentions them in the context of affecting a person’s ability to drive safely. Then pride kicks in. Well, pride and a little stubbornness as most of us bristle at the idea of the government telling us it’s possible we are less able to do something we’ve done ...