Letters: You’d be better off slinging sliders than substitute teaching for Columbus schools

Would possibly as properly work at White Citadel

I see that the Columbus Metropolis Colleges are hiring substitute academics. Beginning pay for these with a B.A. and a instructing license — $140 a day for an 8-hour day.

That works out to $17.50 an hour. Beginning pay on the White Citadel on Hamilton Highway? Fifteen {dollars} an hour.

Significantly?

Rick Stone, Athens

The fox should not guard the henhouse

Invoice Bush is to be praised for his July 13 article, “Leaders disagree over civil service chief,” alerting voters to Mayor Andrew Ginther’s outrageous plan to remove aggressive testing in hiring metropolis workers.

Extra: Ginther says Columbus civil service director works for him. Metropolis constitution does not say that

The mayor’s proposed constitution change harkens again to the corrupt days of the nineteenth century’s Gilded Age.

Again then, political hacks made up the overwhelming majority of presidency staff on the native and nationwide ranges. Authorities workers could possibly be employed and fired at will by the political bosses.

Good-government progressives within the early twentieth century aimed to alter this.

Certainly one of their proposals ushered in civil service techniques for presidency staff. Certainly one of these reforms required aggressive testing for hiring. This requirement aimed to guarantee taxpayers {that a} new public worker had at the least minimal {qualifications}.

Extra: Are aggressive check scores, cornerstone of Columbus civil service hiring, on the best way out?

The Progressive Period reforms additionally established impartial civil service commissions.

In Columbus, Ginther already has eroded this reform by incorrectly claiming that the Metropolis Civil Service Fee’s govt director works for him.

No, Mayor Ginther, town constitution— accepted on the peak of the Progressive Period — requires the chief director to be an worker of the Fee.

In different phrases, the constitution prohibits the fox from guarding the henhouse.

Robert Ruth, Grove Metropolis

Inflation, gasoline costs not Biden’s fault

Is President Biden liable for world inflation?

Inflation all over the world, over the previous two years, Pew Analysis Heart studies that 12 nations with superior economies have increased inflation charges than america. 

Extra: Is Biden in charge for increased gasoline costs? Drivers pay extra in 93 nations.

Is President Biden liable for the price of gasoline within the U.S.?

Based on Newsweek, gasoline costs in america are cheaper than in 90 nations and dearer than in 70 nations.

Is all of this downside actually his fault?

Clare Anderson, Columbus

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Portman is for the birds 

Migratory birds are in bother.

From local weather change and habitat destruction to cats, pesticides, and glass, birds face quite a lot of threats and federal laws is required to guard them.

Fortunately, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), alongside Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), launched the Neotropical Migratory Hen Conservation Act.

This bipartisan laws would reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Hen Conservation Act, the one federal grant program devoted to the conservation of migratory birds all through the Americas. 

Extra: Audubon Society: Local weather change threatens 300 hen species in North America

By rising Neotropical Migratory Hen Conservation Act funding and decreasing grant match necessities, Sen. Portman is working to make sure extra high-quality conservation initiatives break floor and shield iconic Ohio species like mallards and cerulean warblers.

Extra: Letter: Conservation proposal would shield neotropical birds

 Portman is a real champion for birds and Ohio, which advantages from an estimated $100 million that birders contribute to the economic system.

The American Hen Conservancy Motion Fund, devoted to constructing political help for American Hen Conservancy’s mission to preserve wild birds and their habitats all through the Americas, commends Portman’s management.

Annie Connolly, American Hen Conservancy Motion Fund