When your power goes out, FirstEnergy wants you to stay in the dark longer and perhaps even more often. The corporation, which owns Ohio Edison (which services the Mahoning Valley), the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. and Toledo Edison, is asking state regulators to grant permission for ...

Last year we went through the longest government shutdown in history. The point of contention was the extension of what were supposed to be temporary additional Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID-19. “Temporary” in Washington means forever. This is what must change. The ...

President Donald Trump, with his brash, blaring mouth and devouring huge McDonald’s lunches, is the ugly American — the ugliest ever. He’s hurt the country in countless ways. Recently, the murder of Minnesota mother Renee Good, 37, shot in the face by a federal agent armed for war, ...

WEDNESDAY January 14 editorial cartoon

With increasing talk about a growing sense of anxiety and fragile mental well-being, it makes sense that some Ohioans are seeking needed mental health care. For most of them, finding timely care is a challenge. Health Policy Institute of Ohio says 75 of the state’s 88 counties are mental ...

I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. “Breakfast,” it read, “on board the airship Hindenburg.” The words dotted the page in elegant script like a poem: “Coffee, ...