Governor of Ohio
Major crises are powerfully transformative events. After an extremely challenging time in Ohio brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic, we have an opportunity this year to make the kinds of investments that will bring renewal and recovery across the state.
The budget I unveiled last month, and sent to the Ohio General Assembly, would invest in Ohio’s people, businesses, and communities with the goal of our state emerging even stronger from the pandemic.
As part of our budget and other stand-alone bills, we have created the “Investing in Ohio Initiative,” which calls for strategic investments of $1 billion in our economy to:
Cal Thomas
WASHINGTON When a politician promises to “tell the truth,” as President Biden did in his nationally televised address last Thursday, you can add that statement to familiar ones lacking the ring of sincerity. They include: “The gun isn’t loaded;” “the microphone is off;” “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” and “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
A promise to tell the truth might imply that others (himself?) have been lying in the past. Why not just be truthful? Honesty is not only the best policy, it is a practice people don’t have to brag about if they have a record of veracity.
GOV. MIKE DEWINE
Major crises are powerfully transformative events. After an extremely challenging time in Ohio brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic, we have an opportunity this year to make the kinds of investments that will bring renewal and recovery across the state.
The budget I unveiled last month, and sent to the Ohio General Assembly, would invest in Ohio’s people, businesses, and communities with the goal of our state emerging even stronger from the pandemic.
As part of our budget and other stand-alone bills, we have created the “Investing in Ohio Initiative,” which calls for strategic investments of $1 billion in our economy to:
Richard Reich
BERKELEY A quarter-century ago, I and other members of Bill Clinton’s Cabinet urged him to reject the Republican proposal to end welfare. It was too punitive, we said, subjecting poor Americans to deep and abiding poverty. But Clinton’s political advisers warned that unless he went along, he jeopardized his reelection.
That was the end of welfare as we knew it. As Clinton boasted in his State of the Union address to Congress in 1996, “The era of big government is over.”
Until last Thursday, that is, when Joe Biden signed into law the biggest expansion of government assistance since the 1960s a guaranteed income for most families with children, raising the maximum benefit by up to 80 percent per child.
E. GORDON GEE
Editor’s note: West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee sent this letter to the West Virginia Senate last week on proposed concealed carry bills on campus working through the Legislature.
Dear Members of the West Virginia Senate,
There have been no less than four bills introduced during this legislative session that would limit the authority of our Board of Governors to regulate the presence of firearms on our campuses. Providing a safe learning environment for students is the supreme responsibility of any university. For that reason, West Virginia University opposes these pieces of legislation, which in varying forms would allow individuals licensed to carry concealed weapons to carry them on college and university campuses.