Back to school in Stark County schools brace for 2019-20 year
The Independent notes the yearly return to classrooms across Stark County with emphasis on bus safety, new district policies, and cell phone bans in Washington High School Massillon and Alliance High School. It highlights driver caution near schools and wishes students, parents, teachers, and staff a safe, productive year.
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Reader poll weighs backpacks and cellphone ban query
Today's reader poll asks how much a child’s backpack weighs with percentages for 0 to 7 pounds 29 percent and 8 to 12 pounds 13 to 18 pounds and more than 25 pounds 0 percent. It also invites input on supporting a ban on cellphone use by students during the school day via IndeOnline.com.
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Trump era boosts Ohio women by economic gains
Madison Gessotto outlines how Trump's policies lifted Ohio women through job growth, lower unemployment, tax cuts, and expanded family support. She highlights Buy American steel, criminal justice reform, border security, VA care access, and plans for paid family leave as benefits, urging attendance at a Women for Trump voter registration training in Cuyahoga Falls.
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SPEAK YOUR MIND COLUMN ON REPARATIONS
Jonathan Capehart argues reparations for slavery are one way only with whites blamed and blacks not invited to have opinions. The letter warns against politicians who undermine history and warns of socialist systems. Readers are urged to call a comment line, keep it clean, and may see remarks published.
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