4/21/2013 1:09 AM
Kirk: Ohio House crayons
Editorial Cartoons

4/20/2013 11:29 PM
Senate mustn’t fumble its immigration breakthrough
BY DAVID KUSHMA BLADE EDITOR
Nothing will redeem the cowardice that the U.S. Senate — or at least a shameless minority — displayed last week in killing modest gun-control legislation. But if senators want to persuade Americans that they can act at least occasionally as a productive and representative body, they’ll approve the compromise immigration-reform bill before them. …

4/20/2013 11:26 PM
The real school scandal is our testing addiction
BY KEITH C. BURRIS BLADE COLUMNIST
In the Atlanta public schools testing scandal, some 35 educators have been indicted on charges of artificially inflating students’ test results. Some people say that abuse like this is the ultimate result of the nation’s testing addiction and the pressure administrators are under to hike the scores of their schools. …

4/20/2013 11:22 PM
Newspaper isn’t covering up trial of abortion doctor
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE OMBUDSMAN
Last week I was startled by one reader’s question:

4/20/2013 11:16 PM
Phil’s fraud
Editorials
The gray skies and cold temperatures of March have continued unseasonably into April, leading to endless complaints and sighs of exasperation among Toledoans. A month into spring, the mercury is only grudgingly rising. …

4/20/2013 11:15 PM
Immigration reform won’t solve farm workers’ woes
BY BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ
Legalizing the United States’ 11 million undocumented immigrants will remove a major impediment to their integration in the social mainstream, as citizens, job creators, and taxpayers. But amid the broader debate over comprehensive immigration reform, the special case of agriculture remains obscured. …

4/20/2013 11:12 PM
Behind the walls
Editorials
Twenty years after crowding and inhumane treatment helped spark a riot at the Lucasville prison in southern Ohio, many of the same problems continue to plague the state’s 28 prisons. …

4/20/2013 11:10 PM
Find abusers of Social Security
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
When are President Obama and members of Congress going to get it into their heads that the money in Social Security is not theirs (“Social Security, Medicare get cut in Obama budget; Liberals horrified as deal sought with GOP over economy,” April 11)? …

4/20/2013 11:09 PM
It may be late, but Viet vets thanked
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
In response to the April 16 Readers’ Forum letter “So now you want to honor Viet vets?”: I want to clarify the upcoming Vietnam Era Veterans Appreciation Event. …

4/20/2013 11:07 PM
Presidential distraction
Editorials
National media and some pundits are speculating about the 2016 presidential race. They’re kidding, right? Wrong. …