op-ed Archives – The Land

Op-Ed: U.S. elections – The world was observing. Here’s what they saw in Ohio, around the nation

By Jennifer Brush ● Government ● January 21, 2025

Retired ambassador Jennifer Brush reviews a recent report on the 2024 presidential election and what it meant to her.

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Op-Ed: Afghan neighbors in Cleveland and across U.S. need Congress to enact a path to citizenship

By Ahmad Farid Aria & Patrick Kearns ● Social Equity ● May 4, 2023

More than 1,000 Afghans have settled in Cleveland after fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Only temporary protections are in place to allow the refugees to stay in the U.S., where many have built lives.

Why write? How the pandemic reinvented Literary Cleveland

By Matt Weinkam ● Arts & Culture ● January 18, 2022

The pandemic put the future of Literary Cleveland in question. That was until its executive director Matt Weinkam started teaching online writing classes.

Op-Ed: Ohio’s anti-trans sports bills are dangerous state-sanctioned bigotry

By Eliana Turan ● Public Safety ● May 18, 2021

HB527 would have barred trans students in Ohio from competing as their true selves. The bill failed to advance forward in the Statehouse last year, but that original bill is not truly dead. In 2021, it rose like a zombie to become the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which, if passed, would prevent trans female students from competing on female teams in Ohio’s schools and colleges.