ORCHID: To officials of FirstEnergy involved in creating a new and much improved plan to construct a power line in Youngstown as part of an overall strategy to lessen outages and improve electricity services. The new “preferred route” starts at the Riverbend substation in Youngstown and ...

The odds are in, and they’re not looking very pretty for impassioned efforts to expand legalized gambling in Ohio. But that’s just fine with us, thank you, as passage and enactment of Senate Bill 197 to make Ohio the eighth state in the union with lawfully regulated online casino gaming ...

CAM RANH, Vietnam — The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was ...

The hot-selling book “Abundance” is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn’t build as easily as it used to. But it’s those liberals in ...

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right ...

Now that President Donald Trump’s tariffs have been halted, his One Big Beautiful Bill has been stymied, and his multibillionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power? Last week, federal agents from ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of ...