Two Good PD Opinion Pieces in One Weekend

We spend a fair amount of time here at Plunderbund critizing the press and that criticism usually falls on the editorial boards and opinion writers of the Cleveland, Cincy and Columbus papers.

So when I read two really good opinion pieces in today’s Plain Dealer it made me completely forget about all of the trash I read in the Dispatch and I thought maybe I’d take a minute to say something positive for a change.

The a really good piece by its own editorial board today!

You heard me correctly.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Editorial Board published a very informative piece that dealt with actual facts and was not conservatively biased.

Kudos to the PD.

The topic of the piece was, again, something we’ve been covering non-stop here at Plunderbund: the complete lack of diversity in Kasich’s cabinet. But the approach was very different and, like Connie’s piece, covered the topic in a way that the PD editors’ normal readers would actually find engaging and convincing.

The PD editors argue that diversity isn’t just some silly liberal idea created to appease minority Democratic voters, it’s actually a valuable tool used in both the business world and in the military…

Ohioans have to wonder just how widely Kasich and his transition team cast their nets to reel in the catch they did. The last Ohio governor with an all-white Cabinet was Mike DiSalle; he left office in 1963, when Kasich was 10 years old.

Today, enlightened businesses and the U.S. military push their personnel officers to find candidates who reflect the robust racial, ethnic and gender mix of modern-day America. They understand that a workplace — from top to bottom — that includes people of many different backgrounds and experiences is a lot more likely to come up with the kind of creative, break-the-mold thinking that Kasich promised Ohio when he ran for governor.

Kasich quite correctly says that he wants the world to know that Ohio is open for business. But surrounding himself with department heads who don’t even look like Ohio — where the Census Bureau estimates that 15 percent of the population is nonwhite — let alone the United States or the global marketplace, has to make that a harder sell.

Again, Kudos to the PD for running two good opinion pieces in one weekend. Keep it up!