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Updated 5 hours ago
Energizing Ohio’s economy attracts business, creates jobs
BY DEBORAH WINCE-SMITHAND LLOYD JACOBS
An unprecedented energy transition is under way in the United States. Ohio is well positioned to increase its economic and manufacturing competitiveness and create more high-paying jobs. …

Published 10 hours ago
Kirk: Passing the Torch
Editorial Cartoons

Published 17 hours ago
Historywith rebels repeating?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Let’s hope our government’s decision to send military aid to Syrian rebels doesn’t backfire and lead to unintended consequences (“Obama OKs weapons for Syria rebels,” June 14). …

Published 17 hours ago
Bad for Ohio
Editorials
State lawmakers are wrapping up work on the new two-year budget that takes effect July 1; negotiators for the Republican-controlled House and Senate start meeting today to resolve differences in the two chambers’ budget bills. But it already seems clear that the final budget that will emerge from the General Assembly will be mostly bad for Ohio. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Steady Biffle is last-man standing
BY DAVE HACKENBERG BLADE SPORTS COLUMNIST
BROOKLYN, Mich. — It looked as if the last thing Greg Biffle could or should expect was a nice Sunday drive through the countryside to the finish line. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Of the Buffett debt-escape plan
BY THOMAS WALTON BLADE COLUMNIST
Filthy rich businessman Warren Buffett, one of America’s wealthiest citizens (that’s filthy in a good way, of course) obviously has some strong ideas about what’s wrong with America, specifically our nation’s staggering national debt. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Who is OK target of jokes?
Letters to the Editor
You tried to explain away the latest bad joke by Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee by proclaiming: “We Americans are way too quick to take offense” (“The Gee flap,” editorial, June 2). I like Mr. Gee; my problem is with your explanation. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Voice of GOP’s future
Editorials
There's good and bad news in college Republicans’ report to GOP leaders on the party’s shellacking in the 2012 election. Trying to understand how President Obama amassed a 5-million-vote margin over Mitt Romney among voters under 30, the young Republicans conducted a listening tour of their generation. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Can the city listen?
Editorials
Toledo's tree huggers finally got their day before City Council. Former mayor Carty Finkbeiner joined a dozen other property owners at a council committee meeting last week to urge Mayor Mike Bell’s administration to reconsider its tree removal policy. …

6/17/2013 12:00 AM
Fools and their money
Editorials
A new study by two economists gives Americans a C-minus in financial literacy. A large percentage of us have a partial or woefully incomplete understanding of personal money management — such matters as savings, debt, interest, investments, and leveraging of assets. …