Few would dispute the intrinsic value of regionalizing public services to create cost savings, increased efficiencies and more centralized administration. With that in mind, a recommendation from the Trumbull County Water Advisory Board makes eminently good sense. Specifically, that 12-member ...

Trust: “Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.” Polls and simple observations show that Americans are placing less trust in institutions and individuals. A Wall Street Journal story notes that the current government “shutdown” has ...

Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for reelection ...

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like ...

PITTSBURGH — If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a appointee of President Donald Trump) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.” Trump promptly ordered the ...