Buckeyes take notes
The state of Indiana is on a roll.
First, Indiana University took down Ohio State for the Big Ten football championship. The following Saturday, they added icing to the cake by bagging a Heisman Trophy.
But the state’s most significant victory came recently when the Indiana Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s push to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Indiana’s GOP senators acted with integrity and refused to bow before the Dear Leader — a move unfathomable to the Republican bootlickers who populate the Ohio Statehouse. You’ve got to give credit where credit is due.
Go Hoosiers! (Until the football rematch, that is.)
Joe Mischler, Columbus
Trump’s daily circus of cruelty
Every day that passes in America with the current president is more surreal than the day before.
In recent days, our current president actually celebrated the murder of two people whom he thinks insulted him, justifying words of a kind never spoken publicly by any president in our nation’s history.Folks who voted for him often can be heard saying, “I love that he speaks his mind.”
I wonder if those same citizens would find it acceptable if the subjects of his vitriol were friends or family members of theirs; deserving such proclamations so the president could satisfy his lust for revenge.Ironically, the current president made a conscious decision to attempt to become the most public figure in the world again — AFTER putting our country in constant chaos with claims of being cheated out of what he thinks should have been his obligatory second term.Sadly, legacy media, who we stood beside when called the enemy of the people, would have never let any previous elected official escape this type of inhumane rhetoric without justified outrage.
But, due to fear or just simple greed, they have silently served to normalize this daily circus of cruelty that defines this presidency.
Todd Schneider, Cuyahoga Falls
All children are our future
Re “Nationwide Arena funding OK’d,” Dec. 17: This headline and the recent news regarding some of Ohio’s unclaimed funds along with various tax incentives begs the question, where are our priorities?
The largest public schools in Ohio are cutting millions of dollars from their budgets, shutting down schools and cutting staff due to insufficient tax dollars.
Much state money designated for public education is relocated to private schools, scholarship monies and busing.
Non-chartered private schools are not required to meet the standards set by our state legislature nor comply with continued new legislative requirements.
Ohio’s large public schools, like Columbus City Schools and Cleveland Metropolitan School District, educate a large number of students who often have high needs as they may be disadvantaged, disabled, foster children and/or ESL.
All children are our future. Where are our priorities?
Johneen Griffin, Columbus
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio can learn from Indiana. I am not just talking about sports | Letters
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