Published 10 hours ago
Ohio in position to be paragon of fracking’s future
BY NEAL PIERCE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP
Can a state do fracking right? Can it use new shale-gas drilling technology to deliver thousands of jobs, revive depressed industrial zones, spark new high-tech industries, feed state coffers — and still not mess up its countryside, imperil water supplies, and possibly release dangerous amounts of methane gases? …

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. …

6/15/2013 7:53 PM
When we first slipped the bonds of Earth
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.
There has never been an American moment quite like Project Mercury. …

6/15/2013 7:53 PM
Government’s Big Data are a big deal
BY DAVID KUSHMA EDITOR OF THE BLADE.
OBJECT866d1e39-1d45-497e-acb3-4768299fdcb8THE revelations of how much our government is spying on us leave Americans with tough choices about what we’re prepared to sacrifice to wage war on terrorism and preserve our security. …

6/14/2013 10:10 PM
Youth sports' parents should set tone
BY MARILOU JOHANEK BLADE COLUMNIST
They call us soccer moms. We’re also basketball, baseball, volleyball, and what-have-you moms. Dads too. …

6/13/2013 7:14 PM
Mich. youths on civil rights journey
JACK LESSENBERRY THE BLADE’S OMBUDSMAN
SUTTONS BAY, Mich. — Half a century ago, in the early years of the civil rights movement, a group of courageous, mostly young Americans climbed aboard buses for rides that threatened their lives. …

6/10/2013 12:00 AM
American Cancer Society strong 100
BY S. AMJAD HUSSAIN BLADE COLUMNIST
The American Cancer Society is 100 years old this year. It continues to play a dominant role in unlocking the mysteries of cancer, and finding new ways of treating and educating the public. …

6/9/2013 12:40 AM
Bumblers and sinners
BY KEITH C. BURRIS BLADE COLUMNIST
By now everyone knows about E. Gordon Gee’s announcement of his pending departure from the presidency of Ohio State University and the troubles that led up to it. In off-the-cuff remarks during a speech, he put down other schools and coaches. He put down Notre Dame and Catholics: “You just can’t trust those damn Catholics on a Thurs …

6/8/2013 9:49 PM
Senate will miss generation of giants
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.
One was the first black person elected to the Senate since Reconstruction. One was a groundbreaking voice for civil rights, another for the environment. …

6/8/2013 9:49 PM
Remember all of Gee’s tenure
BY DAVID KUSHMA EDITOR OF THE BLADE.
E. Gordon Gee didn’t sound like a man who was thinking about retiring. …