Fix the pensions
Report confirms need for action, so Ohio House should move expeditiously
A long-awaited study has told us what was already obvious: Ohio’s public pensions need reform quickly to ensure their viability. The July 10 report also made it clear that lawmakers’ delay in acting on these reforms has made the problem worse.
WITH MORE than 400,000 Ohioans still unemployed, state and federal unemployment-compensation funds don’t have enough to pay all those who need help, much less to enrich cheaters who collect compensation they aren’t entitled to.
It’s good that conservatives finally are taking seriously the problems of inequality and declining upward mobility. It’s unfortunate that they often evade the ways in which structural changes in the economy, combined with conservative policies, have made matters worse.
When I first saw a book with the title White Girl Bleed A Lot by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about the author.
When I was a child growing up on the South Side of Chicago, my family would drive downtown across 76th Street, get on Lake Shore Drive around the University of Chicago and sweep from there into the ever-famous Loop. It was a sight that never bored us.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has now issued his final report on the scandal at Penn State University, but the question remains: How could so many decent people fail to act when presented with an eyewitness account of sexual abuse of a child?
