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    Ideas & Voices

    FILE - A row of school buses rests in a parking lot, April 7, 2020, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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    VOICES: The math problem behind Ohio’s school transportation crisis
    Shoes placed at a vigil to memorialize lives lost to homelessness in 2024. (CONTRIBUTED)
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    VOICES: For a homeless child, life goes from unknown to unknown
    Daybreak has been a beacon of hope for Miami Valley's homeless and vulnerable youth. 
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    VOICES: After 50 years of offering hope, housing, and healing, Daybreak’s mission has...
    Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. You can reach him at tsuddes@gmail.com.
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    SUDDES: Purported property-tax-cuts General Assembly passed can only worsen inequities
    
                        FILE — Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters on primary night, in New York, June 24, 2025. Mamdani, the democratic socialist whose blend of populist ideas and personal magnetism catapulted his upstart candidacy, will be the next mayor of New York City. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
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    Readers react to Star Parker column about socialism
    South side of Fairborn, Dayton Yellow Springs Road, 2024. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF
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    VOICES: No, Fairborn doesn’t need to ‘catch up’ to Beavercreek
    Diane Welborn is the Ombudsman for Dayton/Montgomery County. CONTRIBUTED
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    Ombudsman assists man with Greater Dayton Premier Management housing eligibility issue
    A sign on Wittenberg University's campus on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Springfield. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF
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    VOICES: Springfield and Wittenberg: Moving forward together
    Pam Chandler's daughter, Jasmine, working on The Little Free Pantry, a place where people in her neighborhood can get non-perishable items at no cost. “We decided it would be a good homeschool project to make something more permanent to help our community,” Chandler said.
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    MARCANO: Take what you need now, and when you can, put a few cans back and help others
    Eric F. Spina, president of the University of Dayton
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    VOICES: The real cost of losing international students
    Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. You can reach him at tsuddes@gmail.com.
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    SUDDES: Like cicadas, lobbyists periodically emerge on Capitol Square to undercut...
    Emily Michiko Morris is the David L. Brennan Endowed Chair and Associate Faculty Director of the Intellectual Property Policy Institute at the University of Akron School of Law. CONTRIBUTED
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    VOICES: Don’t let Congress undercut life-saving research in Ohio
    A sign on Wittenberg University's campus on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Springfield. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF
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    VOICES: Springfield and Wittenberg: Moving forward together
    Pam Chandler's daughter, Jasmine, working on The Little Free Pantry, a place where people in her neighborhood can get non-perishable items at no cost. “We decided it would be a good homeschool project to make something more permanent to help our community,” Chandler said.
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    MARCANO: Take what you need now, and when you can, put a few cans back and help others
    Eric F. Spina, president of the University of Dayton
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    VOICES: The real cost of losing international students
    Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. You can reach him at tsuddes@gmail.com.
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    SUDDES: Like cicadas, lobbyists periodically emerge on Capitol Square to undercut...
    Emily Michiko Morris is the David L. Brennan Endowed Chair and Associate Faculty Director of the Intellectual Property Policy Institute at the University of Akron School of Law. CONTRIBUTED
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    VOICES: Don’t let Congress undercut life-saving research in Ohio
    An ombusdman effort helped a Montgomery County resident recoup child support withholdings. ISTOCK
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    Mother dies, ex-husband with custody of kids gets help ending child support withholdings
    Rodney Veal, Artist/Choreographer and Host of ThinkTV and CET CONNECT, The Art Show.
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    VOICES: ‘The arts are not ornamental, they are foundational’
    CARTOONS: Joel Pett, Nov. 24, 2025
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    WEEK IN CARTOONS: Epstein files, Obamacare affordability and more
    On Monday night, 18 students from Bosnia and Herzegovina buzzed with anticipation before making a community presentation in the Eichelberger Forum at the downtown branch of the Dayton Metro Library. Three Bosnian teachers who accompanied the students called the trip “a life-changing experience.” Students and teachers stayed with host local host families during the three-week trip sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo with support from the city of Dayton. CONTRIBUTED
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    Bosnia and Herzegovina students reflect on Dayton trip: ‘I wanted to meet the city which...
    Executive Director Nicholas Raines gives opening remarks and Salman Rushdie gives his acceptance speech at the Nov. 9, 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards gala held in the rotunda of the Dayton Arcade. Chris Snyder / CONTRIBUTED
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    VOICES: We all can be the peacemakers
    Retired Dayton Daily News staff photographer Jan Underwood: "Once the documents had all been initialed, the other photographers from our staff went back to the office to process and edit film. I volunteered to stay to photograph the rest of the ceremony.  With most of the press corps gone, I made my way to a shaky platform on the far right side of the stage to get a better angle. A videographer for one the national television networks cursed at me for the vibration I created when I stepped on the platform. From my new vantage point and with a telephoto lens, I was able to capture a photo of the three presidents isolated from the throng, with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (left) lost in thought, looking toward my lens and the other two, Bosnian and Herzegovinia President Alijan Izetbegovic (center) and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman applauding the remarks of one of the speakers. That photo later ran across two pages in Time Magazine to accompany their coverage of the Dayton Peace Accords." JAN UNDERWOOD / STAFF
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    VOICES: How the Dayton Peace Accords photo that ran in Time Magazine in 1995 was taken
    A demonstrator holds a sign while protesting outside of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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    Letters to the Editor: Readers react to U.S. bombing Venezuelan boats, Medicare gaps
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