"Fragmented local gun laws may feel empowering to city leaders, but they create confusion for residents, extra burdens for law enforcement and instability for the courts. Most importantly, they threaten to turn fundamental rights into privileges that vary by zip code."
"When a community faces daily threats of violence, it should be able to decide how best to reduce those risks. We trust cities to make decisions about policing, zoning and emergency management, and firearm safety should be parallel among those listed."
"The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution protects all citizens’ right to obtain and bear arms. If an Ohio city, or rather any lower level of government, were to enact its own gun laws limiting this freedom, it would be in direct violation of this amendment."
"Allowing cities to respond to their own public safety needs does not inherently conflict with state law; it complements it by enabling government at every level to function effectively for its people."
"I shared with Gary some of my Vietnam story with the 101st Airborne Division in 1969 and 1970, and I then asked him to share some of his WWII experiences. He disappeared into another room and came back and sat down with a manuscript."
"If people wish to own something illegal in the city, all they have to do is travel outside city limits, buy it and bring it back. For gun violence to be reduced, a statewide initiative that supports stricter gun regulations would have to be put in place."
The problem isn’t the Board, ASG or Ohio’s laws; it’s the culture of animosity and complacency we’ve allowed to define USenate.
"GrubHub is completely distanced from the user and does not provide any direct methods of remediating an issue. Have a problem with an order? You can’t talk to a cashier, but you can report an issue in the app; maybe a chatbot or worker in a third-world country will get back to you."
"TikTok’s algorithm-driven content prioritizes short, engaging videos filled with buzzwords, eye-catching infographics and emotionally related content, allowing influencers to forsake evidence and credibility for views. This undermines the trust in public health professionals and science-backed interventions."
"We’ve gotten good at not finding peace, but constructing illusions of it. We push out regret, sadness and uncertainty, but they don’t go away. Every emotion, no matter how nuanced or uncomfortable, exists for a reason, and therein lies a lesson to be learned."
"I was fascinated by the company and dreamed of one day working there, helping to build that interplanetary future that it promised. But, as years passed, cracks began to show. While SpaceX has remained fairly apolitical and out of the spotlight, it became caught up in the absolute mess that was its founder, Elon Musk."
"Too many times, I’ve waited way too long for the elevator, only to find it full of students who could have taken the stairs. Several times, when I’ve been eating in the dining halls, I’ve witnessed the able-bodied student workers go straight to the ADA stall in the bathrooms, despite me being in the process of maneuvering to it in my wheelchair."
"Libraries are a vital public service and play an important role in education. They offer free and easily accessible learning opportunities to the public, and they allow people who do not have the privilege of receiving adequate education or educational resources to find such opportunities in one place, for little to no cost."
"The new system changes how funding for departments is calculated. Now, 40% of instructional revenue will be given to a student's primary major, a large increase from the 25% set aside previously. This means that a department will get far less funding for offering courses to students from other majors, emphasizing ones that mostly offer courses to its own students and punishing ones that participate heavily in the Miami Plan."
"The option to continually swipe after two seconds of disengagement feeds and affirms the catalytic nature of boredom: anything that is slower and quieter is automatically correlated to what the mind recognizes as a type of harm to the mind and in need of relief. Even if cognitively, we want to enjoy our hobbies, we just can’t."
"A lot of their plans included going out to the bars Uptown or checking out parties, so I was a little bummed. I wanted to have fun like the others around me, but my idea of fun looked different from theirs. I decided to take matters into my own hands and find my own version of the college experience."
"The line between science and the humanities might be thinner than people think. There’s an inherent beauty to microbiology and chemistry, one that students sit in front of without knowing how it came to be or how it might relate to their studies. The intersection isn’t obvious, and Miami is aware of this, letting the artworks fade into the background and exist with practicality."
"This past summer, I resolved to make my second year something to look forward to. I started researching on and off-campus activities I knew I’d love and started a little note in my phone detailing how I’d avoid the sophomore slump."
"Major media outlets have regurgitated official press releases instead of probing contradictions. The heart of journalism: investigation, skepticism and the courage to question power seems to have been forgotten."
"Behind the vague wording, the true intentions are to provide more protection for the accused person in cases of sexual violence. It rules that schools can only investigate a case if it involves 'severe and pervasive sexual violence.'"