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Bring campaigns into the sunshine

Openness is the key to our democracy. It is the sunlight of public scrutiny that keeps honest elected officials at all levels of government and holds accountable those who wield money, power and influence in the public arena.



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OU's Columbus branch is hiring

The search for Ohio University's next president is a very important undertaking that will have implications for OU students for years to come. It is good to know that the chair of the committee is willing to give 110 percent of his time to this vital task. I mean, he is so dedicated that he was willing to give up his lunch hour to discuss the university's next leader.



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Man relives youth, music in Yugoslavia

Happy Kid (Sretno Dijete) is one man's recollection of the music of his Yugoslavian youth and how the bands of his homeland came to lead the masses with their new-wave beats.


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U.S. forces strike Fallujah, urge Iraqi rebels to surrender

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. warplanes and artillery attacked Sunni insurgents holed up in a slum in a thunderous show of force that rocked Fallujah yesterday, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the night sky. The assault came after American troops killed 64 gunmen near the southern city of Najaf.


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Movie depicts war's lessons with clarity

Although it incorporates powerful images of war crisply edited over a suspenseful score, The Fog of War is a reflection of one man's lessons, rather than a documentation of America at battle.


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Kerry urges job creation

YOUNGSTOWN -- John Kerry's promise to create new jobs was met with enthusiasm yesterday in an area hit hard by unemployment.


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Center asks to buy business incubator

In yesterday's Athens County Commissioner's meeting, the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks proposed purchasing the Nelsonville Entrepreneurship Center and Business Incubator building for $2 million. The commissioners support the proposal.


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Speaker: Secret plan work of 'overzealous' staffers

COLUMBUS - A secret plan to destroy the political career of Ohio's secretary of state was the work of overzealous staffers frustrated with the secretary's proposal to roll back a penny sales-tax increase, House Speaker Larry Householder said yesterday.


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Football fan ready for more Knorr

Former Post sports editor Eric Pfahler told me around the time of baseball's opening day how different it was watching the Pirates after covering them for MLB.com the previous summer. After my first stint following a team, I see what he meant.


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Bova named MAC Pitcher of the Week

Chris Bova was named the Mid-American Conference East Division Pitcher of the Week after pitching a complete game one-hitter against Buffalo Friday.


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Grad rates increase

Seventy-three percent of scholarship student-athletes who enrolled at Ohio University in 1997-98 as freshmen earned undergraduate degrees, according to new graduation rate data released Thursday by the Ohio Athletics Department. The number is the highest in eight years.


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Leave it to Democrats to be fashion police

If you have to start pulling up your pants, I'll have to start tying my shoes, and then where will we be? I have a bad back, and I can't reach that far. Some Democrat down in Louisiana introduced a bill last week making it a violation of the law to wear one's pants too low. This offense would be punishable by a $500 fine and six months in jail. The idiot finds low-riding pants to be offensive. So the Chief of the Fashion Police is doing us all quite the favor by making it illegal.


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Justices challenge church-state issue

WASHINGTON - Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members delivered an unusual public rebuke to more liberal justices yesterday, accusing them of ducking an important church-state fight over mealtime prayers at a taxpayer-funded military college.

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