How many Warren City Council members does it take to set up a livestream broadcast of the entity’s regular meetings? Whatever that number is, we still — apparently — are not there yet. Last week, council again discussed why Warren hasn’t joined the 21st century and set up streaming ...

President Donald Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature,” and so he was. Jackson, who died last week at 84, was the last great orator of the civil rights movement. He could bring an audience to cheers or to tears with the power of his personality. I once accompanied him to a ...

A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” So wrote George Orwell at the opening of his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Big Brother’s image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced earlier this month that his office is partnering with the Ohio Bankers League and the Ohio Health Care Association on a statewide campaign to increase awareness about elder abuse AND intercept financial exploitation before it ever does its damage. The ...

When people think about economic development, they often picture big announcements, major investments and ribbon cuttings. Those moments matter. They signal confidence in a region and reflect years of effort by many partners. But they don’t happen by accident. And they don’t continue ...

Having covered the late Rev. Jesse Jackson off and on since the 1960s, I am still amused to receive an email from one of my many critics who wants me to know that you don’t have to be white to find something to criticize about black people, as if I didn’t know. In fact, I’ve made an ...